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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She also could have been the victim of rape and Joseph trying to protect her, instead of her being a cheater and Joseph being dumb. If they both did exist of course.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jesus did exist too but he was a regular human and some kind of pop star at the time

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Hence Jesus Christ Superstar

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt he was a pop star at the time as the genre pop wasn't invented back then :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I wrote "some kind of"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

She could also have been a hotwife and he could have been a cuckold. The possibilities are endless.

What's impossible is the holy ghost impregnating her.

[–] teamevil 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe that's what the rapist called himself?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never thought about it. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

"Which is more likely — that the whole natural order is to be suspended, or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?" - Christopher Hitchens

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 25 points 1 year ago

The thing is, the earliest versions of the gospels didn't contain a nativity story at all, instead starting with Jesus' baptism. The whole "virgin birth" thing was retconned in after the religion was already up and running.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Instead of circlejerking eachother this is the type of shit you guys should post more often. This is funny af

[–] normalmighty 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair if picking the first option meant getting stoned to death for adultery, I would try my luck at the second option too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Absolute gold

[–] NocturnalMorning 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

“Yes, (…) [but] the chances of these all happening in real life are virtually zero.”

“(…) one of her eggs would have to produce, on its own, the biochemical changes indicative of fertilization, and then divide abnormally to compensate for the lack of sperm DNA.“

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would never result in a viable human

[–] EtherWhack 15 points 1 year ago

And it would never be male without a "Y" chromosome

[–] NocturnalMorning -1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I read the article too.

[–] kylua 1 points 1 year ago

this is interesting. Thank you

[–] doppelgangmember 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"It was all because of that damn APPLE, im tellin' ya!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

...hey Joseph. Yeah. You know how we never have sex? YEAH! Well an angel came to me and I'm pregnant. JESUS CHRIST! Oh you already know about it!

[–] Willer 2 points 1 year ago

I guess the pilgrims must have been on the good shit to not see the cap.

[–] Cornerspace 1 points 1 year ago

Mary was not married though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But wait. Assuming this isn’t Flortucky, how’s a 12-year-old pregnant person have the ability to consent to:

  1. choose to marry
  2. marry
  3. sex
  4. cheat, and then
  5. sex again?