[xzins]

I don’t disagree with all that. I’m just sympathetic with the origin of the idea. It’s not like there biblegateway.com for those folks to consult. If they had a hard copy of scripture, then they were extremely fortunate.

So, the easy mental dodge is that she became a holy woman and didn’t engage in that stuff anymore....or something like that.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh true... the impetus for preaching that this was the case with her could arise that way.

Ultimately I’ve found that being Christian is worth the scandals it causes. God can deftly turn those scandals into witnessing opportunities. It’s when we start esteeming above all the way the world does things, that we lose the ability to do that.

[MHGinTN]

What a cogent point you raise! It might even relate to why catholiciism insists Mary remained virginal since her son was perpetually virginal. Is it the ‘Jesus Seminar’ who scurrilously claim Jesus probably had a wife and perhaps children, because the Jewish male of that epoch did such to fulfill all ‘righteousness’?

[metmom]

So, the easy mental dodge is that she became a holy woman and didn’t engage in that stuff anymore....or something like that.

So then the women who do "that stuff" aren't holy, eh?

Only people who don't engage in sex are holy and if you engage in sex, you aren't or can't be holy?

That sends the message that sex is sin, wrong, base, carnal, unworthy of holy people, etc.