And nothing of value was lost.

Guess I never had the pleasure

Not being on reddit is a gift. You never have to interact with Steve the pedo for one thing.

Pepe got memed enough that it's not a racist dogwhistle anymore, and has been well clear of it for years.

The reclaiming happened, mostly because the zoomers spamming it out in Twitch chats were too young to understand the racism, you can relax.

There's a documentary called "Feels Good Man" that talks about how this meme was co-opted and corrupted from a college kid's goofy self-published 'zine.

It's had a lot of mileage, coming and going.

I thought the frog was like an incel thing ?

IDK why OP used it, but if I recall Pepe lore, the original creator was not happy about it being coopted by racist trash humans, so they probably(?) would approve of this post.

I could also have made all of that up.

Alabama was 49th in everything, thanks to Mississippi being 50th.

Oklahoma has been plumbing new depths of late.

However, I think Mississippi is having a moment in large part because the systems of disenfranchisement have been breaking down. And unlike with Alabama and it's large cadre of wealthy white German expat rocket scientists, the white upper class in the state has been fumbling their bag for decades.

Apartheid systems struggle when there's no economic benefit to being in the "superior" cohort. Not unlike with Texas and Georgia, where the suburbs have melted back into the urban core and people have lost sight of themselves as racialized factions.

I would have never expected Mississippi to go blue before Alabama.

I spent a good portion of my childhood in Alabama, and the one thing that everyone agreed on was "thank God for Mississippi", because Alabama was 49th in everything, thanks to Mississippi being 50th.

I imagine that number will flip pretty quickly.

Why use Pepe

Maga on bluicide watch

It most certainly is, thanks!

Of course these are and probably will remain forever speculations that compete with other speculations that are pushed heavily by christian churches, but I was now able to find a few articles that offer better explanations for the nonsense of "immaculate conception":

• Several claim that Mary did indeed work as a temple prostitute (or rather temple virgin) right until she got married to Joseph.
• Both such temples and the idea of virgin conception were nothing new at the time, not to Jews, not to other religions.
• Original bible texts don't even claim virginity for Mary; the word is "almah" which just means young woman.

Such dirty thought was pushed out pretty soon, or transfered to Mary Magdalene. I'm not sure who went full patriarchy & misogyny (not saying Jews weren't that at the time, but I get the impression they looked at such things more openly) first, but I suspect the turncoat Saulus/Paulus once again.

https://taylormarshall.com/2011/12/did-jewish-temple-virgins-exist-and-was.html
https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/mary-was-a-cult-prostitute-8f4bcdcf5d16
This one's outright fishy: https://www.e-seminary.org/twm/mary/virgin.html

Of course she didn’t. A bunch of fat priests agreed to make that cannon some hundreds of years after the fact because of greed for power and money, you know, the christian values

Must've really botched teaching carpentry for philosophy to be something he could live off of back then....

Way back before the Jesus era, back in the time of Solomon, there's some modern scholarship that claims evidence that Asherah was worshipped at the Jerusalem temple as the consort of Yahweh. And this worship would have included sacred temple prostitutes.

I don't know if that's related to what you're talking about or not.

Joe and his stepson Josh (as Joshua is a transliteration of Jesus).

I don't think you have to be very skeptical to conclude that some sneaky unmarried rumpy pumpy is infinitely more likely than being impregnated by magic.

Jesus is not necessarily Joseph's son. If she was pregnant her parents would have wanted to have her married off.

It's been a very common story throughout the ages.

I'd expect the eternal, almighty Lord God Jehovah who impregnated Mary to know better, even if people didn't.

I remember having read, a long time ago, that back then they had these rituals once a year where young virgins would spend a night in the temple. With (male) priests of course. If a pregnancy was the result they were generally still considered virgins, and the child somewhat holy I guess.

It makes so much sense to me, but every time I try to look it up I get overwhelmed with a tsunami of content...

Did I imagine this, or was it a bullshit story?

This is the first time I’ve seen someone refer to him as Joe and I lol’d. Never would I have imagined reading “Joe was likely a groomer” in a bible context.

Given Mary's age and what became of the religion, Joe was likely a groomer

Wasn’t this pretty much normal at the time? So everybody was a groomer.

That’s not Holy Spirit she was full off.

Given Mary's age and what became of the religion, Joe was likely a groomer, but the Lord got to her first.

Also, nobody ever talks about the insane pressure Jesus must have felt to have to follow in his real dad's footsteps. What a disappointment, in the end.

Also, the virgin birth story is the result of a translation error from the original Greek.