The Assumption of Mary

[DevoutAgnostic]

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.

[brewer]

So it's not about celebrating her pulling one over on Joseph?

[DevoutAgnostic]

So it's not about celebrating her pulling one over on Joseph?

Nah, he was probably a lonely older guy who jumped at the opportunity to have a nubile young wife and didn't mind if a kid was part of the package.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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

[DevoutAgnostic]

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

You must be a ton of fun at a party.

[Ahriman]

Mary is kewl......she is a very welcoming mother figure.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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

You must be a ton of fun at a party.

If you’re going to attack religion (a practice I heartily endorse), it’s best to do it on the basis of what religion has to say. When you make crude, stupid, childish pastiches of religion and attack those, you do a disservice to non-belief.

Boru

[DevoutAgnostic]

You must be a ton of fun at a party.

If you’re going to attack religion (a practice I heartily endorse), it’s best to do it on the basis of what religion has to say. When you make crude, stupid, childish pastiches of religion and attack those, you do a disservice to non-belief.

Boru

What, so now YOU'RE God?

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If you’re going to attack religion (a practice I heartily endorse), it’s best to do it on the basis of what religion has to say. When you make crude, stupid, childish pastiches of religion and attack those, you do a disservice to non-belief.

Boru

What, so now YOU'RE God?  And you think non-belief is what, some kind of club?

[vulcanlogician]

If you’re going to attack religion (a practice I heartily endorse), it’s best to do it on the basis of what religion has to say. When you make crude, stupid, childish pastiches of religion and attack those, you do a disservice to non-belief.

Boru

What, so now YOU'RE God?

Yeah. That's what the red name means.

[DevoutAgnostic]

What, so now YOU'RE God?

Yeah. That's what the red name means.  

Um.........pretty sure it's not.