Posted on 12/24/2014 8:01:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Valerie Tarico wrote an article at Alternet, republished at Salon, that should get her a lot of invites to ironically themed liberal Christmas parties. The title: "Why rape is so intrinsic to religion."
Tarico lays out a series of myths from pagan traditions, mostly Greek and Roman, in which women are abducted, violated, and coerced. We have Danae, Europa, Rea Silvia...and, what do you know, the Virgin Mary.
Notably, Tarico avoids using the same dire language for the Blessed Mother that she uses for the pagan myths: "[I]n the Gospel of Luke, the Virgin Mary gets pregnant when the spirit of the Lord comes upon her and the power of the Most High overshadows her." No "cutting" or "overcom[ing]" or "imprison[ing]" here – but it still, per Tarico, equates to Mary not "giving consent."
At this point, anyone with even a passing understanding of the Bible must be hearing alarm bells. That, and seeing a coruscating marquee that reads LUKE 1:38:
And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word.
This passage has been read over and over (and over!) again in Catholic Masses throughout the world as Christmas approaches. Protestants, too, are quite clear on it; be it done to me according to thy word is one of the most oft-quoted and well-known phrases of the Advent season.
The best Tarico can do is complain that "Mary assents after being not asked but told by a powerful supernatural being what is going to happen to her[.]" Yet Tarico apparently couldn't be bothered to read the rest of the source she's citing:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
For behold, the word was put forth from the mouth of the Media, and the Sheep heard the word, and it was believed thereby...
I guess the word “overshadowed” must have a different translation for anti-Christian “liberals”.
Millions of Cultural Christians with a dust-covered bible believe what the Progressive media tells them about their own “faith”. Sad.
Carry it one step beyond...
A woman with child by rape should...
Have an abortion.
But she didn’t.
Mary’s mistake.
So Jesus was born.
According to liberal speak, I give you -
The story of Jesus’ conception/birth.
The angel appeared to her and asked for her consent, which she gave (Be it done to me according to your word). The very antithesis of rape.
“a powerful supernatural being”
That phrase suggests a very shallow, childish understanding of the Bible.
This is stupid, but I will mention two things: The Virgin Mary gave her consent, and two, if Salon or anyone else has a problem with G-d, take it up with Him.
5.56mm
This is really not new. They trot this stuff out every year about this time. It’s supposed to show how clever and outré one is. But it’s been circulating around for decades at least.
These leftists just love to crap all over organized religion. They’re just convoluted, mentally sick people. Next thing you know there will be some feminist “theologist” who will call Jesus Christ a sexist because there were no female Apostles and that he didn’t have women at the Last Supper! Go ahead laugh and mock that statement but you know some sicko leftist is thinking that very same thing.
LIBs are mentally disturbed. Typical self-loathing, angry LIBs. Have a Merry Christmas!
That statement is surely an abomination to a Holy God, and his son.
I wonder if that person has ever heard of the Magnificat?
I’m having Christmas dinner at my son-in-laws aunts houses. It will be interesting since she is a lesbian.
And therein is exposed the filthy hypocrisy of the anti-American godless left ... IF MAry was ‘raped’ as they contend, how is it that those same twisted minds can ignore the choice Mary then made to not kill the life within her?
WOW!
The disgusting leftist scum must sit up all night worshiping Satan to come up with the most perverse blasphemies. Accusing God of rape?!?!?!
They will regret uttering such evil nonsense on the day of judgment when they will bow before God:
“At the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
~Philippians 2:10-11
There are things more fearful than a controlling woman. But the list is very short.
These atheists don’t believe Jesus existed.
Even if they acknowledge ‘historical Jesus’, these atheists don’t believe in the Immaculate conception.
All this liberal feminist bigot is trying to do is whizz on the cornflakes of Christians on Christmas eve.
I knew more about the Bible when I was 10 than she does now.
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