Ok, back to one of my pet topics. Seriously, i don't do it on purpose, but just now i found myself thinking about religion... and the virgin Mary.
Why was it so important that Jesus' mother was a virgin? Would either of them have lost any sacredness if she hadn't been? I mean, that a virgin conceived god's son is not so spectacular, given that he is almighty and all... Wouldn't it be even more miraculous if Mary hadn't been a virgin, people had known it, and still they had accepted Jesus as the son of god?
Also, i'm wondering, why couldn't god have used Joseph's sperm to fertilize Mary? If he didn't, did he cause her egg to have a full set of 46 chromosomes, rather than the normal 23? Or was her egg just a regular one, and god just made 23 additional chromosomes to simply appear inside it? What were the genes in god's Y chromosome, for instance? I mean, i know Jesus is the spirit made flesh, but the instructions to make flesh are contained in DNA, which is matter... Did god concoct his own kind of DNA just on the spot, at the moment of Jesus' conception, or did he copy it from someone else, from people already living or who had lived in the past? If the first, it would really be interesting to see how god's DNA looks like; if the second, who did he pick as model/s?
In either case, what kind of genetic traits did he pick over what others? Knowing how fractious people are, isn't it a bit careless to make the redeemer of all humankind look like the members of one group in particular? It'd have simplified things if he'd included a disclaimer, something like "don't fight guys; it was a random process; i did it with my eyes closed -- he just happened to come out male and caucasian".
Some things we see, some we hope to, and some we are probably never even able to conceive of.
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5 comments:
Very intersting thoughts of which I don't have an answer :)
Wait, Jesus was caucasian? I thought I read somewhere where they were printing the shroud of Turin that he was more of a darker skinned race? Well certainly not the ideas we in our head with the soft features and flowing honey coloured hair and shiny white skin.
Did you know that in Renaissance Italy, the Dominicans and Franciscans (if I'm not wrong) had this HUGE debate about whether Saint Anne had to be a virgin as well for Mary to be pure and holy. Dominicans decided that she had to be. Virginity Obsession!
We won't ever get rid of our catholic mentalities, will we?... Together with their obsessions, ghosts, phantoms, dark corners...
Curiously enough, you're going the opposite way from the one Rome seems to be about to take, namely I've recently read the Pope is about to banish evolutionism and to embrace creationism... If I already was quite distant from the catholic church, I believe I'll be lost forever the instant the Pope will take that step... Who cares?
Thank you, Mariano, for some good laughs I had while reading your post!
Have a nice day! Abrazos desde Lisboa!
Did you know that oocytes can divide by themselves, without sperm cells crossing the so-called zona pellucida structure and fertilizing the egg?
Such cells normally divide a few times, perhaps creating a morula or a blastocyst, but will eventually go on automatic abortion. If I recall correctly, the reason is the lack of male genome.
When I heard of this, I immediately thought of Virgin Mary, too. What if in one case, only once in the world, when all the circumstances were right, the egg cell kept dividing, dividing and dividing...? ...
As for your thoughts on virgin, I don't understand what's so special about hymen. Why praise the presence of loose connective tissue consisting of microfibrils and microfilaments? Besides, hymen is sensitive to sports, and there are so many genetic anomalias that - - being virgin, if that means presence of hymen, basically tells of a woman... nothing at all. I think the point is, though, that since the son of god couldn't be the son of Joseph, they needed to stress the point that Mary was virgin. Otherwise, people would have assumed she had been unfaithful. Maybe being virgin wasn't the POINT in the beginning, but rather the idea to defend her. Being unfaithful is not just a Christian sin, I believe most people are against it. But gradually, the story of virgin became more important and gained value it wasn't meant to have. If they protected Mary's image that way, maybe that was plausible, and smart.
I like this kind of philosophy!!!
the whole thing is a mis translation anyway. virgin should read "of good virtue" meaning she was not a bitch or shrew. Leave it to a bunch of drunken scribes to bollox it up.
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