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I have an announcement to make, an important one!

Did anyone pay attention, that by the current moral set and by the current law, the Gospel story begins with rape? Mary, mother of Jesus is raped by the so called Holy Spirit, who did not ask for her consent and none was given? It was simply announced to her that she will conceive.

What did she say?

"I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be done unto me according to your word."

Ok, this line screams of powerlessness against the Lord, who is an epitome of rapey Patriarchy. It is not a resounding and enthusiastic "YES!" at an early stage of a foreplay, followed by many "YES, OH YES!" afterwards.

This look terrible, and gets worse.

After that, a holy abortion angel did not visit that poor oppressed woman.

Utterly against the current progressive idea of what is good and empowering for women.

I trust that Gospels should be publicly condemned from high chairs of our academics and in every media outlet. There is no time to waste, as this handbook of rape and female subjugation continues to be promulgated in our society.

By delaying their condemnation of the fundamental Christian text, our academics and media feminists are partaking in dangerous hypocrisy.

IgorRogov 5 Feb 26
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Interesting take. Never looked at it that way before.

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My theology professor told me that she had to have given her consent.

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One would hope!

This much Moron would HAVE to hurt.

Of course I am being sarcastic, and frankly I cannot follow current news without a major spill of irony.
But I've heard that in some US states irony and sarcasm is not detected. Must be something in the water.

But then I discovered that my joke is not a joke, honestly, after I have written it. Follow this link:

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The Virgin Mary is the most venerated human person in the world. So much for female subjugation.

I written a joke, but someone else is not joking. Nor the 1.6 thousand strong applauding audience of this popular feminist author.

In the Biblical narrative, Mary was coerced into submission and obedience by the Angel Gabriel. Christians generally, and conservative Catholics and Evangelicals in particular, have strong traditions of heaping shovelfuls of spirituality, romance, idealism, and cultural relativism onto young Mary in order to insist that she “consented” when she said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” They argue vigorously that she was special and uniquely capable of consent. It simply isn’t true. A child cannot consent to pregnancy by an authority figure. Fearfully submitting to exploitation as a servant is not consent. It’s not “free will.” Christians have a long tradition of lauding Mary’s submission, failing to recognize her reproductive exploitation as abuse.

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@IgorRogov I fearfully submit to the will of God. At least I try to do so. I owe the submission of every thought, word and deed to God. Ideally, I should submit to God out of love only. I have to rely on love and fear. Mary willfully submitted to the will of God completely. And she did it because she loved God completely.

God is certainly an authority figure. The problem is not that we feel obligated to submit to Him. The trouble starts when we fail to submit to Him.

@Marcoullier I'll stop clowning for a moment and gladly admit that I find submission to God, as a highest law, as reasonable and in accordance with nature as submission to the law of gravity. Trouble starts when we reject consequences of not submitting to any particular law. Do I have freedom to jump from high tower? Surely I do. Would consequences be fatal? Sure!

Did Mary have freedom of will to reject God? Absolutely! Would consequences be fatal? Perhaps, "fatal" is understatement in this case. I reckon this conversation would be entirely impossible in that case.

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What a load of Bullshit.

Creation is The Lord's. Mary was willing, and said I am your servant, may it be as You Will.

Consensual.

It is a satire, but not a bullshit.
Saying "I am your servant (slave)" does look like a positive and affirmative consent only in a context of a modern BDSM club.
Otherwise it is simply an admission of one's subservient status. Of course the Lord can take his slave any time He wants. Yet it does not mean that the slave actually wants it.

I am simply trying to follow the feminist playbook and affirmative consent laws as they are introduced at least in our academia, but also pushed to the state legislatures.
In Australia, Canada, US it is more or less the same, as far as I know.

And the Gospels do look rapey to our progressive feminists:

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Of course I do not think THAT way, at least because thinking that individual should get only and exactly what individual wants is woefully immature and not a valid basis for any law, sexual, religious or any other kind.

@IgorRogov

It is COMPLETE Bullshit.

Read the original texts the 1611 King James (the closest to the original texts) was translated from. Use a concordance for the tough bits.

Your atheism or agnosticism is noted.

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