Joseph is the Samwise Gamgee of the Bible confirmed

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

From what I was told, people didn't have official babies out of wedlock back then, so the whole thing was basically the church avoiding calling him a bastard.