Iirc the actual wording used in the bibble was something like "showered her in gold." Take that how you like
I am not taking that.
TAKE IT BITCH
It tastes just like raisins
Oops, wrong thing.
GIVE IT BACK
By the stroke of his mane he turns into plane and he turns back again when you tug on his winkie!
Zeus did it first. Can't believe he's just a copycat.
So God gave her an Immaculate Conception .... and Gabriel gave her a golden shower?
The immaculate part was that she was without sin.
Just learned that recently, but I grew up protestant, so that wasn't a thing for us.
Well, the catholic church at least says she was a virgin. When they canonized her, this is the interpretation they went with. My understanding is it's almost certainly a mistranslation, but it sounds more impressive so they went with it. The original meaning was a word that meant "unmarried woman" and had the implication they hadn't had sex (being unmarried) but it wasn't necessary.
To quote UNSONG Chapter 17: No Earthly Parents I Confess (https://unsongbook.com/chapter-18-no-earthly-parents-i-confess/ and yes it's chapter 17 despite the URL, and I'm sure there's something significant about that but I am unsure exactly what offhand, but everything in UNSONG is significant):
"Picture a maiden lost in the hills.
“Maiden” can mean either “young woman” or “virgin”. Its Greek and Hebrew equivalents have the same ambiguity, which is why some people think the person we call the Virgin Mary was actually supposed to be the Young Woman Mary – which might change the significance of her subsequent pregnancy a bit. People grew up faster, back in the days when they spoke of “maidens”. Mary was probably only fourteen when she gave birth.
I am a kabbalist. Words matter. Nowadays we have replaced “maiden” with “teenage girl”. A maiden and a teenager are the same thing, but their names drag different tracks through lexical space, stir up different waters. Synonymity aside, some young women are maidens and others are teenagers. The girl in our story was definitely a maiden, even though it was the 1970s and being a maiden was somewhat out of fashion."
Strange to see an Unsong reference in the wild
If we're talking about Scott Alexander's writings, I feel like Sort By Controversial reflects reality far too well. Fucking prescient.
Hadn't read that one before. Fun.
I know the term, but that's not how people get pregnant!
One can try.
I would like to shower in God's golden shower
The Christian god must be shy as fuck to send a local manager with the package...
Maybe he's cheating us with other worlds and that was just his way of mass delivery
Probably not a serious answer, but as a tangent, iirc St. Thomas Aquinas believed that angels were not actual beings or messengers and didn't posses a soul. They are direct extensions of god, as we would have arms and legs as extensions or apendages, angels are the "arms and legs" of god.
Edit: because some people have shown interest, the idea that angels at some point rebelled against god and Lucifer became their leader is from a 1667 poem called Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Its an amazing work of fiction that ties in to some already existing mythos at the time (like the hierarchy of angels, from cherubs to seraphim) but it has nothing to do with what's in religious texts, either Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
That makes the whole story of Lucifer being the rebellious angel moot. Tools do not rebel.
They don't. The Lucifer rebellion against god is from Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) and is not mythology or in any texts. Pure fiction, pretty amazing at that, but definitely doesn't have the same origin as the angels.
How can they rebell then?
The rebellion is from paradise lost, not in any religious text I thought? I'm no expert.
I don't get it
Neither did Joseph
You're Zeus, not Mary.
Wait now, does this motherfuckwr have 3 dads are you telling me?
Depending on which group you ask ... He is also his own father
Almost like Fry, just taking it one step further
So more like this smeghead, then?
The more Red Dwarf references I see the more I realize I badly need to go back and actually watch more than a few episodes of it
It has its ups and downs, but on the whole it's well worth the time to watch.
One of my favorite little side projects of the series (as British comedies seem to do fairly often) is an episode of the cooking show "Can't Cook, Won't Cook", which they did entirely in-character. It's appropriately titled "Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg."
What did I just read
it took me a while, but it's the nativity story. the angel gabriel knocks up mary and then asks if she came.
Gabriel didn't knock her up. The Holy Spirit came upon her (giggity). In other words, God himself/part of the trinity. Not a mere angel like Gabe or Mike.
Merry Christmas
Christianity is great--how many other religions were started when a wife cheated on her husband? And don't bring up Zeus because that shit was already in full swing when he started waving his dick(s) around.
IIRC, the titans before the olympians were just as much into infidelity and came from Gaea fucking Uranus (giggity).
I'm pretty sure that 12 year old temple prostitute was preganant when Joseph won her by raffle.
I'm pretty sure that 12 year old temple prostitute was preganant when Joseph won her by raffle.
Pregananant
¡Prregante!
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