@phoenyx I don’t see how Joseph coming up short when measured against God is disrespectful to God. The whole things kinda of rediculous anyways. I don’t think any one would seriously suggest immaculate conception could be sexually satisfying in the first place. I would be royally pissed if it happened to me. All the hardship and work of motherhood without any of the fun leading up to it or even a real say in whether or not any of this was ok with me.
No wonder Christians are overwhelmingly against a woman’s right to choose. If Mary had a means of preventing pregnancy or terminating an unwanted one she may have never been the Holy Mother of God and the world would still be doomed all for the sake of one woman’s insistence that someone else couldn’t choose her future and determine what was right for her body. Personal freedoms sure are selfish.
This billboard isn’t even remotely offensive compared to what is suggested in the Bible.
Wasn’t Mary something like 16 at the time? I’d say that was pervy on God’s part, but he probably had to go young since all the adult women would have already been married off and deflowered. That apparently made them dirty and sinful and not fit to bring a holy child into the world. Nope. This wasn’t pervy so much as it was cruel.
You must have heard how sex is usually painful for women the first time? Perhaps you are a woman and have experience in these matters. If you did you would know that after having vaginal intercourse somethings get easier. One of those things is sex, another is the garden variety pap smear. My paps were so much less horrible after I had had sex. Before I had a pap that I hope is as close to rape as I ever come. Now imagine just skipping that first instance of vaginal intercourse, the one that makes the vagina more willing to pass things like speculums, penises and babies. Imagine popping her holy hymen with your lord and savior’s blessed head.
I’m sure that offends you. But what are you more concerned about? A supposedly all knowing, all powerful God’s reputation, or a young, inexperienced girl being told that she must sacrifice her body and her future for the aforementioned all powerful, all knowing God? I don’t think the all powerful guy needs your sympathy. It would appear that he has every means of taking care of himself and completing his plans, what with being all powerful and all knowing. I’m much more worried about the girl.