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[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 106 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Iirc the actual wording used in the bibble was something like "showered her in gold." Take that how you like

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It tastes just like raisins

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Oops, wrong thing.

GIVE IT BACK

[–] tangonov@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

By the stroke of his mane he turns into plane and he turns back again when you tug on his winkie!

[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] tangonov@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do ya think so? Then I better not show you how the lemonade is made!

[–] beccaboben@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Ooo sweet lemonade, yes sweet lemonade!!

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So God gave her an Immaculate Conception .... and Gabriel gave her a golden shower?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

She was a kinky bitch for everyone except Joseph

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean the guy travelled miles around with a pregnant wife just for a census, he was either a privacy geek or really subservient.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That part of the story is just confusing. The whole point of a sensus is to tell where you live now. Not where you hail from. Why he traipsed around Gallilea with a pregnant woman sounds more like a tax avoidance plot to me

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[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The immaculate part was that she was without sin.

Just learned that recently, but I grew up protestant, so that wasn't a thing for us.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, the catholic church at least says she was a virgin. When they canonized her, this is the interpretation they went with. My understanding is it's almost certainly a mistranslation, but it sounds more impressive so they went with it. The original meaning was a word that meant "unmarried woman" and had the implication they hadn't had sex (being unmarried) but it wasn't necessary.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

To quote UNSONG Chapter 17: No Earthly Parents I Confess (https://unsongbook.com/chapter-18-no-earthly-parents-i-confess/ and yes it's chapter 17 despite the URL, and I'm sure there's something significant about that but I am unsure exactly what offhand, but everything in UNSONG is significant):

"Picture a maiden lost in the hills.

“Maiden” can mean either “young woman” or “virgin”. Its Greek and Hebrew equivalents have the same ambiguity, which is why some people think the person we call the Virgin Mary was actually supposed to be the Young Woman Mary – which might change the significance of her subsequent pregnancy a bit. People grew up faster, back in the days when they spoke of “maidens”. Mary was probably only fourteen when she gave birth.

I am a kabbalist. Words matter. Nowadays we have replaced “maiden” with “teenage girl”. A maiden and a teenager are the same thing, but their names drag different tracks through lexical space, stir up different waters. Synonymity aside, some young women are maidens and others are teenagers. The girl in our story was definitely a maiden, even though it was the 1970s and being a maiden was somewhat out of fashion."

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[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

That's what I thought it referred to also, but the specific phrase has nothing to do with virginity. It isn't Jesus's conception it's talking about. It's that Mary was conceived without original sin.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

My cousin almost got kicked out of catholic school, because when they were covering this, she asked if there was any reason to believe Joseph hadn't simply had a wet dream, and Mary rolled onto it.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Zeus did it first. Can't believe he's just a copycat.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I know the term, but that's not how people get pregnant!

[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

One can try.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's not how you get someone pregnant!

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this a challenge to a breed-off?

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More like a pissing contest

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Na, I'm out then. I'm rather uncoordinated currently as I'm sick and drinking amounts of ginger tea nobody should drink.

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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I would like to shower in God's golden shower

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The Christian god must be shy as fuck to send a local manager with the package...

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (13 children)

Probably not a serious answer, but as a tangent, iirc St. Thomas Aquinas believed that angels were not actual beings or messengers and didn't posses a soul. They are direct extensions of god, as we would have arms and legs as extensions or apendages, angels are the "arms and legs" of god.

Edit: because some people have shown interest, the idea that angels at some point rebelled against god and Lucifer became their leader is from a 1667 poem called Paradise Lost by John Milton.

Its an amazing work of fiction that ties in to some already existing mythos at the time (like the hierarchy of angels, from cherubs to seraphim) but it has nothing to do with what's in religious texts, either Jewish, Christian or Muslim.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So Gabriel was god’s dick?

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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That makes the whole story of Lucifer being the rebellious angel moot. Tools do not rebel.

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

They don't. The Lucifer rebellion against god is from Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) and is not mythology or in any texts. Pure fiction, pretty amazing at that, but definitely doesn't have the same origin as the angels.

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

Maybe he's cheating us with other worlds and that was just his way of mass delivery

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At least one of the gospels says that the Holy Spirit "comes upon" Mary and then she is pregnant. Gabriel was just the messenger that she would carry a child.

The story is different depending on which gospel you read

[–] Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So god pulled out and came on her belly?🤔

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[–] Someplaceunknown@leminal.space 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it took me a while, but it's the nativity story. the angel gabriel knocks up mary and then asks if she came.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Gabriel didn't knock her up. The Holy Spirit came upon her (giggity). In other words, God himself/part of the trinity. Not a mere angel like Gabe or Mike.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Christianity is great--how many other religions were started when a wife cheated on her husband? And don't bring up Zeus because that shit was already in full swing when he started waving his dick(s) around.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

IIRC, the titans before the olympians were just as much into infidelity and came from Gaea fucking Uranus (giggity).

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 46 points 7 months ago

Neither did Joseph

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

It's a joke about Mary becoming pregnant with Jesus. Although I'm not sure why Gabriel is the one doing it. At least one of the gospels says that the Holy Spirit "comes down upon" her to impregnate her and Gabriel was just the messenger who told Mary that she would carry a child.

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[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait now, does this motherfuckwr have 3 dads are you telling me? 

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Depending on which group you ask ... He is also his own father

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Almost like Fry, just taking it one step further

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[–] SSETranquility@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Merry Christmas

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