“Which is more likely — that the whole natural order is to be suspended, or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?” - Christopher Hitchens
The same sentiment could be stated without reference to religion or objectifying women.
Surprisingly, there is such a thing as virgin births. They’re super rare, but also not a miracle.
“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.“
The movie “Bringing Out the Dead” taught me that!
Edit: URL: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163988/
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.
Jesus did exist too but he was a regular human and some kind of pop star at the time
I doubt he was a pop star at the time as the genre pop wasn’t invented back then :P
Instead of circlejerking eachother this is the type of shit you guys should post more often. This is funny af
Instead of circlejerking eachother this is the type of shit you guys should post more often. This is funny af
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.