Virgin Births a dime a dozen

[Mister Agenda]

A supervisor at work who has visited the USA, told me that Americans in general are quite dumb. Now I know why she her comment was based on careful observations, rather than some insult.

I've only met one person who claimed a modern virgin birth (his sister). He was from Austrailia and attributed her condition to human parthenogenesis.

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Whats surprising is that the Gospel writers would include such an awkward/embarrassing detail - Mary becoming pregnant while betrothed to Joseph.

I agree. It's things like that which lean me to put the probability of an historical Jesus over 50%.

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born in Bethlehem, who had prophetic ancestry, rode a donkey, was born of a virgin, got Crucified...

The prophetic ancestry and virgin birth are at odds. The messiah was supposed to be of the male line of David, which he was not if his father was God, but I suppose the awesomeness of having God for a father trumps fulfilling that particular prophecy.

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it appears I correctly "read into" the xpastor intentions, otherwise he would have 'engauged' my post.

You have an awfully peculiar idea of what would make someone want to engage with you.