He can't judge. Different worlds can have all sorts of crazy stuff that's perfectly there. And he can't judge how anything sounds given the whole 'the actual prophetess from my version of the bible talked to me as a kid' thing. The idea of someone touching some bread to a body and eating it to symbolically forgive their sins does sound very silly to him, though.

Not that he'll say it, because it's a valid belief, and the point moreover is Ellie having had an experience with someone who had the ability to shoulder some of her weight. Without speaking it, just through touch.

"She did that for you even though you weren't dying." That he has to sit on and mull over. "How did you feel, after?"