Comments on: Virgin Birth

By: nyokki

nyokki — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:07:53 +0000

@rattybad: Ah yes, I knew someone would save me the trouble of looking it up. It's been decades since I'd read it.

By: rattybad

rattybad — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:56:39 +0000

@nyokki, et al. It’s Joseph. You’re talking about either The Hero with a Thousand Faces or The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers).

By: nyokki

nyokki — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:19:18 +0000

Campbell (Joeseph, I think, too lazy to go find the book) talks about Miraculous conception and birth when he writes about The Hero’s Journey (i.e. monomyth). He goes through the various stages of a hero’s journey that show up over and over in myths from every part of the world, throughout mankind’s history. Great stuff and really interesting if you’re interested in this sort of thing. He’s pretty easy reading too.

By: Dreth

Dreth — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:24:45 +0000

@dieAntagonista: No, God is a virgin.

By: dieAntagonista

dieAntagonista — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:22:29 +0000

@natedog: Whoa is that really true? But it was also necessary to prove that Jesus wasn't an ordinary man right.

By: natedog

natedog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:14:29 +0000

the reason jesus needed to be born of a virgin is that the Sin Gene passes to the next generation through the father.

By: dieAntagonista

dieAntagonista — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:51:19 +0000

@Dreth: Err, no? The virgin thing supposedly happend to make it apparent that Jesus birth was a miracle. Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY YO.

By: angrymatt

angrymatt — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:58:57 +0000

Less enjoyable for god? or for Mary?

By: Tyger42

Tyger42 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:44:28 +0000

@TGGeko: Yes yes. So in the Christian version, God snapped his fingers rather than doing the nasty. Only difference is it's less enjoyable...

By: Lamb

Lamb — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:03:26 +0000

@TGGeko: Yeah they do and no they don't

By: Dreth

Dreth — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:44:04 +0000

But christians know that sex is bad and their god is a virgin so they modified that small part.

By: TGGeko

TGGeko — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:38:58 +0000

Those other things don’t claim virgin births, they claim that a god came down and had sex with the mother.

By: angrymatt

angrymatt — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:24:43 +0000

Hey Nate, way to distract people from the real topic, which was the proliferation of virgin births in deistic origin stories.

So basically, your argument is stupid.

By: Tenspace

Tenspace — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:11:45 +0000

That must be why the holiday wasn’t even celebrated until the Catholic church was well-established, some three hundred years after the death of Jesus.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

By: I am Nate

I am Nate — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:10:32 +0000

The early christians decided to celebrate christmas on December 25th with all those other gods so that they could celebrate and not be found out and persecuted. They didn’t actually think Jesus was born on the 25th.

So basically, this is stupid.

By: TrayShadix

TrayShadix — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:21:31 +0000

Sun worship gone crazy.

By: XJC

XJC — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:09:17 +0000

It’s Thor’s birthday? Shit, I’m gonna get drunk!

By: ColombianMonkey

ColombianMonkey — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:48:00 +0000

wow