From: Scott Badger (wbadger@psyberlink.net)
Date: Thu Dec 03 1998 - 21:14:58 MST
Michael Lorrey wrote:
>As a person who was raised Roman Catholic, was an altar boy and actually
read
>the bible, I have to say you are stupendously wrong. An Immaculate
Conception
>takes place when a virgin becomes pregnant and her hymen remains intact,
thus
>proving that the child has no earthly father. Its 'immaculate' because it
is
>prefectly clean, with no blood from the breaking of the hymen... get it?
>
>I have felt the the policy of the Immaculate Conception, which was not a
part
>of catholic theology til several hundred years after the supposedly blessed
>event, was merely a smokescreen by the Church to obfuscate the evidence
that
>Jesus was actually a political figure by the fact that his parents were the
>culmination of a breeding program to reunite the royal houses of Isreal.
Michael (or anyone),
I would really like to hear more coherent arguments like this exposing
religious myths and agendas. Can you recommend a couple of good
books?
Scott
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