Gluten free hosts

[Warpy]

6. It only reinforced my opinion that theological hairsplitters are idiots

Gluten free bread is certainly bread. Some of it doesn't even taste like sawdust. Gluten free grains are leavened with yeast with xanthan or guar gum providing the structure to trap the CO2 in it and allow it to rise instead of remaining a brick.

In any case, the host is unleavened, that's rather the point, and there should be no problem with using alternative, gluten free grain in it. There is nothing magical about wheat. It just makes some people sick and for others, it's life threatening.

Quibbling over recipes simply makes them look as ignorant as they really are, unwilling to consult cooks or medical professionals, just clinging to what is probably a completely erroneous tradition. Passover bread could have been made from a number of different grains 2000 years ago and was more likely to have been made from a mixture of farro and barley.

There isn't anything particularly funny about any of this, church bighats willing to threaten people's lives because they are unwilling to alter a stupid recipe that was developed in the Middle Ages or even later.