Mysteries (media.piefed.social)
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Mysteries
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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

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