10. “Joe! Guess what happened while you were out!”
Mom gets pregnant before Mom and Dad make sex.
That a large portion of the earth’s population has no problem accepting this scenario is frightening. In fact, to suggest another possibility for the Virgin Mary’s predicament is tantamount to an attack upon the whole Christian faith.
Grown-ups tell their children this. Religious leaders base their life on it. The story has been handed down by billions of people for two-thousand years.
Yet, when this happens in today’s world, we don’t call it Virgin Birth. We call it Jerry Springer.
It is centuries too late for a paternity test, and we have no pictures of Mary’s personal trainer. But if she lived today, she’d be booed off the stage and sent back at the trailer park faster than she could cash her immaculate alimony check.
Of course divine conception was a lot more common back then. Plenty of beautiful Roman and Greek girls were inseminated in the forest by virile deities in the centuries before Jesus. Which may be why Constantine his posse didn’t have a hard time believing it.
But why would Matthew go to all the trouble of listing all 42 generations of Joseph’s ancestors (who cares is Rehaboam begot Ajibah?) and then say, oh, but they’re not related.
Why didn’t the Gospel of Mark, the first gospel, even mention Virgin Birth? Is it possible the story came out later, as Matthew and Luke attempted to retroactively fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament?
I’d just like to hear one preacher say, “Maybe that immaculate impregnation was a bit over the top, the story may have been corrupted by the Romans…adhered to the mores of the day…was required to justify his divinity to the pagans…but is a little hokey in this day and age, and Christianity is strong enough to stand on principles rather than myth.”
No, if you don’t believe in the Divine Impregnation, you’re off the team.
Period.
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