GOD RAPED MARY

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Just a historical aside....  where and why did the Mary Cult arise?

From his book, Jesus Wars, by J. Philip Jenkins:  Jenkins is describing the violence employed by good xtians against other good xtians in the early 5th century in the absurd battles over the "nature of jesus."

In more recent times, fictional portrayals of a too-human Christ ignite furious responses from those reluctant to imagine a figure too involved in worldly concerns. In the 1980s, the image of a Jesus married with a family stirred worldwide cries of blasphemy against the film The Last Temptation of Christ. So many bristled at any suggestion that the founder of the faith might have experienced any human passions or weaknesses, any doubts or qualms about his mission. Human sexuality apparently represents a stain that can in no way be associated with a purely divine being. Christ moves among humanity like a divine tourist.4

And yet, through the centuries, other Christians have fought to preserve the human face of Jesus, placing him firmly on earthly soil and in human society. Partly, the idea arises from the common human need for an accessible divinity, a figure who shares our experience and can hear our prayers. Even the societies that pushed Christ so far from human reach created a substitute in the form of the loving Mary, virgin and mother.

So, like so much of the horseshit put out by the church, this was just another ad hoc solution to a corner they had painted themselves into.

BTW, The Last Temptation of Christ would have been a fairly good film except Willem Dafoe can't act his way out of a paper bag.