From: Michael J Smith
Message: 20246
Date: 2003-03-23
>________________________________________________________________
> George:
> >Glen, what's the point of this? I find most of your analyses quite
> >persuasive (sober, logical even if occasionally couched in
> abrasively
> >Glennish language).
>
> I'm honoured but also disturbed that you think I'm sober :)
>
>
> >But when you get into the topic of religion you occasionally lose
> it, and
> >come up with utterly irrelevant crapola like some of the above.
> Mary is not
> >a goddess, and is not considered to have self-impregnated.
>
> Ah, excellent. The real point of this was to create controversy. My
> plan has worked! Teehee!
>
> Now, no, of course any typical Christian church would not consider
> Mary
> to have impregnated herself. A Christian will usually say that she
> was,
> to put it in a nutshell, impregnated by God. Of course, you have to
> understand that Judaeo-Christianity is one believing in a _single_
> god
> and certainly whatever story had inspired the story of Mary (which I
> deem to be largely or entirely a fictional story and a carryover of
> pre-Christian, non-Judaeo-Christian mythology) cannot allow Mary to
> have
> divine qualities such as self-impregnation. So, the story gets
> modified
> a little to suit monotheistic needs. One therefore says that she had
> a
> miracle "virgin" birth by the help of God. {wink, wink}
>
> Nonetheless, I say she impregnated herself to keep true to her
> origins.
> But if she was real, she was probably having too much sex and poor
> Joseph had to cover it up with a large story about "the son of God",
> yadayada.
>
>
> >At least get your "facts" straight.
>
> I know what the facts are, thanks. I grew up in a Christian home. I
> was
> just doing a little reinterpretation. I've been good, I didn't go
> into
> my theory on Jesus and homosexuality, did I?
>
>
> >I'm not particularly religious, but I don't happen to think that
> religion
> >per se is the devil's work (or whatever activates your hate
> glands).
>
> How can religion be the devil's work if the devil doesn't exist? :)
> I'm
> being cool. I'm just strange and misunderstood as usual.
>
>
> - gLeN
>
>
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