What the fuck man
So the Catholics justify this by saying that Mary was without sin and that's why she was chosen. It seems that for Jesus to have been born without sin he needed to be born to someone without sin. This begs the question, though: where did Mary come from? Didn't she need a sinless mother, too? And if original sin started with Adam and Eve and was passed down through the generations, I've got to assume that Mary's ancestors split off before the development of anatomically modern humans?
If my loose interpretation of Catholic theology is correct, Jesus was actually the last neanderthal.
Edit: Holy shit I just realized he even came back to life in a cave. You know who else felt refreshed after a three day nap in a cave? Cavemen.
I thought it wasn't that Mary had never sinned but that the actual conception of Jesus, despite her not being married, was not a sin itself
At least in Catholicism, Mary was actually born without sin (she was divinely shielded somehow, iirc) so that she could then birth Jesus. While most people think Jesus was the “immaculate conception”, it was Mary. Jesus was just the “virgin birth”.
Edit: I like to think it went like this:
God: okay, I need to have sex with a human to make my sinless demigod son.
Angel: um… god? You made it so all humans are born with sin, remember?
God: idk figure it out.
Didn't she ask god to forgive her sins or acknowledge that she sinned? That might be a protestant thing though, catholics go way harder for Mary than protestants
Yeah, Catholicism is bizarre in the way they lift religious figureheads into practically deity status (saints), changing them from regular people into beings that you pray to.
Sounds like Protestants are a little more down to earth with their religious figureheads. Catholics would rather things be Devine than mundane I think.
God could've chosen a 39 year old MILF to give birth to his son.
You're assuming I've read this big book of fairytales. That usually bothers me. Sorry.
I'm so glad you stuck around, I love reading your comments.
A good reason to read the Bible is it's one of the foundational texts of Western society. Then a casual reference to it like this doesn't sail over your head. I'm an atheist and I've read it. Do you also balk at reading literature because it's not literally true?
Uhh, I would read Moby Dick except you know there isn't really a albino whale that was hunted by a mad sea captain
Being ignorant isn't something to be proud of
Seriously, it's like saying you have to have read harry potter, just 2000 years later.
If someone made a "x points to gryffindor" joke and you felt the need to chime in with "what the fucks a gryffindor, why would I know that, you know that story isn't real right" you would be treated much the same way you're being treated now
You are generally expected, for better or worse, to have some level of familiarity with things that exist within the culture of the people you are interacting with
book of basically bad poems
Do you actually think the Bible is a bunch of poems. Jesus Christ, lmao
Seriously, it's like saying you have to have read harry potter, just 2000 years later.
How would you know? You haven't read it, and I doubt you've read Harry Potter either.
Choosing not to read something means you've chosen to be ignorant of it. That's a choice everyone is free to make, but it also means nobody should take you at all seriously when you talk about it.
Jesus Christ, lmao
Excuse me, what is this obscure reference you're making
what the fuck is harry potter why are you expecting me to have heard of that what was 2000 years ago why are you expecting me to know that what the fuck is punctuation why are you expecting me to know how to do a sentence
You're actually saying it's somehow needed for people in 2023 to read a book of basically bad poems to understand modern society?
I don't know why people are clowning are you. I'm jealous of anyone who never had to experience this wretched bullshit in their lives. I'm forever cursed to be annoyed at stupid fairy tales
Even nonreligious people learn stories from the bible to discern meraphors/etc from popular writers over American history.
Sorry but I have no idea what you're trying to say in this sentence.
The point is that the bible is referenced a lot.
It's like how you can never watch a star wars movie but know Darth Vader says something like "Luke, I am your father". Or live in Canada and never watch hockey but know who Wayne Gretzky is. I never read the Quran but know Mohammed went to the mountain.
Unless you plug your ears a lot idk how you wouldn't know at a few bible references if you lived in a Christian-majority country (even if people around you are largely atheist or agnostic)
the wording was a little weird so here is what it means: if god granted a 90 yr old woman the ability to give birth, why did he need to impregnate a mary at 13 years?
