History is a pyramid of skulls.

[Kidlicious]

Appropriated culture is the bestist.

[Kidlicious]

Glad we have a staight white dude to sort things out.

Straight white dudes came up with your Marxist horse****.

[ricketyclik]

Yeaaaahhhh if you look into it those are all spurious connections. Some are kind of true-ish, but in a very roundabout way; for example, Horus was a virgin birth in that his dad Osiris was hacked into bits, and the pieces scattered across Egypt. Osiris's wife Isis looked for the pieces, and found all of them except the penis, which had been eaten by a fish. So she put her husband back together with a wooden penis, and used her magic to somehow conceive Horus anyway. Also Isis and Osiris were both deities, and siblings to boot.

Which is not to say Christianity did not derive anything from other religions, but the true story ("it's what happened when Jews met Greeks") is much more interesting than hogwash made up by neopagans (or in some cases by fanciful Victorians).

Also, I'm new calendar.

So Jesus is the only one who fvcked his own mother to conceive himself?

[Elok]

I'm really not sure why atheists assume the incarnation of a human being by supernatural means had to involve sex of some kind. I assume it's purely to be offensive and shocking and such, and I'd hate to disappoint, so OH I AM SO OFFENDED SOMEBODY BAN RICKETYCLIK

[ricketyclik]

At last someone gives me an albeit staged bite! I've been trying that one for years on Christians without a response.

I guess, it's because procreation.

[ricketyclik]

And of course "The father, the son...".

[ricketyclik]

Oooh, song time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkebLhk22zQ

[Elok]

At last someone gives me an albeit staged bite! I've been trying that one for years on Christians without a response.

I guess, it's because procreation.

Well, the mom's standard title includes the word "virgin," the Biblical account of the Annunciation includes her saying she's never had sex, and God is both incorporeal and possessed of supernatural powers. So, uh ... yeah. Well, you got me to bite, so good troll, I guess.

[ricketyclik]

Joseph: Mary, you're pregnant, but we haven't had sex.
Mary: Ummm, yeah. It's God's baby.
Joseph: Well that would explain it then.

[Kidlicious]

Why is it hard for atheists to understand "Virgin Birth."

[ricketyclik]

Biology? An obvious and far more likely explanation for what happened?

[ricketyclik]

And as I've told you before, I'm not an Atheist.

[Proteus_MST]

As for biology, the intereting questions (if one believed in the virgin birth) would also be:
What does god DNA look like, after all half of Jesus Genome would be of divine origin.

And did Mary have an orgasm when the holy spirit penetrated her?
Was it painful?
And did she have any problems with Jesus birth, due to her Hymen still being intact?

Also, did the holy spirit repair her Hymen after Jesus birth?
After all, (in all cultures where it plays a role) the test for virginity would be, whether the womans hymen still is intact or not

[Kidlicious]

And as I've told you before, I'm not an Atheist.

Funny. You talk just like one.

[Kidlicious]

As for biology, the intereting questions (if one believed in the virgin birth) would also be:
What does god DNA look like, after all half of Jesus Genome would be of divine origin.

And did Mary have an orgasm when the holy spirit penetrated her?
Was it painful?
And did she have any problems with Jesus birth, due to her Hymen still being intact?

Also, did the holy spirit repair her Hymen after Jesus birth?
After all, (in all cultures where it plays a role) the test for virginity would be, whether the womans hymen still is intact or not

Why do you think it is biological?