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    Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
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    Image of Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred) Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred)
    01/03/09

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    Alright, mate, but there's a few details missing from your story.


    Like a uterus, a vagina, a cervix...


    And guess what... if "he" had all these things then "he"'s actually a woman.


    Jeez, one of the XX camp's only big scenes in the Bible and you try to take it from us?!


    Spoilsport.

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    Image of Her Grace Her Grace
    01/01/09

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    Except for the part where that makes you sterile. Who gave this man a doctorate?
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    Image of lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
    01/01/09

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    Seriously this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.


    Sure, she was actually a MAN...that is way more plausible than, oh, the whole thing NEVER HAPPENED.

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    Image of CrankyOldBroad CrankyOldBroad
    01/01/09

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    Oh ferchrissake...literally.
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    Image of Gobiasomecoffee Gobiasomecoffee
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    Am I the only one who sees the logical fallacies in these "scientific proofs"?


    THE BIBLE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY.

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    12/31/08

    @Gobiasomecoffee: Yes, thank you.
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    OR the Gospels, which were written 100 years after the birth of Jesus and not by anyone with a first-hand knowledge of the events, might have gotten a few facts wrong here and there in an effort to interpret the life of Jesus in a way that was theologically pleasing to the authors.


    You know, whichever is more plausible.

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    Image of ChicagoSaphique ChicagoSaphique
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    So being a woman who can self-fertilize is easier to conceptualize than a woman who is neither virgin nor whore?
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    Image of lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
    01/01/09

    @ChicagoSaphique: You just murdered people by causing heads to explode. Way to start the new year.
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    Image of Jamie Sommers Jamie Sommers
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    Oh, for Christ's sake!
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    Image of Samanthrax Samanthrax
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    I am biting my tongue so hard right now, it might start to bleed.
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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    This is like all those History Channel specials saying how the Red Sea parted because of a small contained tornado, or something.


    I mean, really.

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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    12/31/08

    @randomnessish: Someone has their plausibility meter screwed up, it should go like this (from least to most).


    1. Divine intervention

    2. Made up and never before witnessed weather phenomenon

    3. Tides and mistranslations

    4. Just made up

    5. UFOs

    6. Flying Spaghetti monster blocked it with his noodly appendage.

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    12/31/08

    @rmric0: May the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Invisible Pink Unicorn rule the heavens for all eternity.
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    Image of YourScreenplaySucks YourScreenplaySucks
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    Whoever she was, from an atheist's perspective (& thus not down with the whole Immaculate Conception bit), she was brilliant. An unwed pregnant woman in those times was not in a good situation (as my grandma liked to say, "Girls in occupied countries often get into trouble"), and she managed to explain herself in the most far-out, astonishing way possible and boy, was she believed. Props.
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    12/31/08

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: Not to rain on your particular parade, but you opened the door to another popular misconception.


    "Immaculate Conception" has NOTHING to do with the conception of Jesus. It actually refers to Mary being the only human being conceived without the stain of Original Sin.


    Fact-finding in religious fables seems trite, I know, but that is actually the fable.

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    Image of westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago) westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)
    12/31/08

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: From one atheist to another, I think it's helpful to know the "facts" that we reject. Let's just be clear that the Immaculate Conception does not actually refer to the conception of Christ. It actually refers to Mary's conception. She was born without "original sin." You know, because she had to be pure, perfect vessel to hold the Baby Jesus.
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    12/31/08

    @theysaidwhat: You're absolutely right. Sister Bridget, my first grade teacher, would totally smack me for confusing the two. And um...for what I wrote before that. And for everything I've done since puberty.
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    12/31/08

    @westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago): You got it! The miracle of Jesus' being delivered by a virgin is referred to as the "Virgin Birth".
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    12/31/08

    @theysaidwhat: Well, technically the Immaculate Conception has a lot to do with the conception of Jesus. It's true that it wasn't Jesus' conception, but the only reason that Mary was conceived immaculately was so that she could conceive Jesus.


    It's not like these are purely unrelated miracles.

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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    12/31/08

    @westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago), theysaidwhat: Say WHAT? Man, I should've gone to Catholic school -- I missed out on so many cool fairy tales!
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    Image of Never_Nude Never_Nude
    12/31/08

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: I went to (Presbyterian) church plenty as a kid, but I didn't know this. Learned me something today. Servicey!
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    01/01/09

    @braak: Ya got me there.
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    Image of rocknrollunicorn rocknrollunicorn
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    If men steal the Virgin Mary from us, I am done with them. It's OVER. Lezebelism, here I come.
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    Image of Fate'sBitch Fate'sBitch
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    This is also how Cartman was conceived.
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    Image of victoriasauce victoriasauce
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    ha! Take THAT "pregnant man".


    It's already been done.

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    Image of Samanthrax Samanthrax
    12/31/08

    In reply to Was The Virgin Mary Actually A Man?
    If you're going to try to disprove bible stories, this would be the last logical place to start. How about that whole ark thing? Job? ZOMBIES?
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    Image of westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago) westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)
    12/31/08

    @Samanthrax: There are zombies in the Bible? Chapter and verse, please. Sunday school just got (slightly) less boring.
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    Image of Samanthrax Samanthrax
    12/31/08

    @westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago): Ha... well, I was referring to that whole Jesus died and then was resurrected thingy. Not so excited NOW, are ya!
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    Image of AnnieKObama AnnieKObama
    12/31/08

    @Samanthrax: Jesus was the O.Z. (orginal zombie...)


    But you can count Lazarus too.

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    Image of Samanthrax Samanthrax
    12/31/08

    @AnnieKObama: But I suppose if we're being technical, he didn't eat human flesh, so he's just a uh... walking dead? Apparition?
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