(August 15, 2021 at 11:58 am)DevoutAgnostic Wrote: Today is some religious holiday in Mexico, where I live, which means people set off "cohetes": fireworks that don't do anything pretty but make an enormous bang. I've been trying to calm my poor dogs since it started in the wee hours, so I've had some time to think.
According to the internet, the holiday is called The Assumption of Mary. I assume the assumption in question is that Mary was not actually a virgin - "The Virgin Mary" was just a taunting nickname that some mean Nazareth kids gave her after she started to show - and that the exploding cohetes are meant to represent the orgasm she had as she was being impregnated by some other teenager who thought he was God because he was getting laid. To me, it seems odd, even unseemly, to celebrate an orgasm that a young bullied girl had some 2000-odd years ago, but hey, each to their own.
The Assumption Of Mary celebrates her bodily ascent to Heaven, it has nothing to do with either her impregnation or her state of virginity.
But, you know, way to raise the level of debate.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
