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17 Feb 2009, 1:48 pm

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mm, the belief that God is both the father and son of a certain woman sounds quite ridiculous to me.


Not the father, the adulterer. Mary merely mediated God giving birth to Himself.



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17 Feb 2009, 1:50 pm

I never got circumcision, if god did not want the penis to have a forskin, then why did he create it to begin with?

This just shows how religion and nature conflict with each other. Circumcision should only be for medical reasons.


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17 Feb 2009, 2:54 pm

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I never got circumcision, if god did not want the penis to have a forskin, then why did he create it to begin with?

Circumcision was supposed to be a blood sacrifice - in modern Judaism, if you convert but are already circumcised (common enough in the US in the latter half of the 20th century), the conversion is completed by piercing just enough of the penis to draw forth a drop of blood. It also marked the Hebrews as different physically, as none of the neighboring tribes did that (similar to the reasoning behind the "no idols" thing - everyone else worshiped idols, so the children of Abraham would set themselves apart by refusing to do so).


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17 Feb 2009, 2:56 pm

immaculate conception always seemed quite ridiculous to me.


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17 Feb 2009, 4:29 pm

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immaculate conception always seemed quite ridiculous to me.


More ridiculous than the creation of the world?



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17 Feb 2009, 6:28 pm

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immaculate conception always seemed quite ridiculous to me.


Water fleas (Daphnia) conceive immaculately all the time which makes them much more holy than people.



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17 Feb 2009, 6:33 pm

Sand wrote:
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immaculate conception always seemed quite ridiculous to me.


Water fleas (Daphnia) conceive immaculately all the time which makes them much more holy than people.


If human reproduced asexually all the time like water-fleas, then immaculate conceptions wouldn't be special at all.



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17 Feb 2009, 6:45 pm

slowmutant wrote:
Sand wrote:
anna-banana wrote:
immaculate conception always seemed quite ridiculous to me.


Water fleas (Daphnia) conceive immaculately all the time which makes them much more holy than people.


If human reproduced asexually all the time like water-fleas, then immaculate conceptions wouldn't be special at all.


Logically, therefore, Christ might have been a mutated water flea. Nature can be surprising.



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17 Feb 2009, 6:49 pm

Jesus Christ was not a mutated water-flea.

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17 Feb 2009, 8:33 pm

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Jesus Christ was not a mutated water-flea.

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Jesus was at least half primate (on his mother's side).

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17 Feb 2009, 10:08 pm

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slowmutant wrote:
Jesus Christ was not a mutated water-flea.

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Jesus was at least half primate (on his mother's side).

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Jesus was Jewish. :D



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18 Feb 2009, 10:43 am

Immaculate circumcision topic

Faith, foreskins, fleas. fashion, favouristism.

Thank God for evolution!! :P :lol:


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18 Feb 2009, 10:44 am

How does a foreskin survive all of that time without decomposing?



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18 Feb 2009, 12:08 pm

slowmutant wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
Jesus Christ was not a mutated water-flea.

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Jesus was at least half primate (on his mother's side).

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Jesus was Jewish. :D


So he was a Jewish water flea. Obviously not a Christian water flea.



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18 Feb 2009, 12:32 pm

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immaculate conception always seemed quite ridiculous to me.

With current technology that can be possible nowadays.

From Christianity, immaculate conception would mean two things I believe, that he, his spirit, came from God instead of man and the woman was the means for a deity to become flesh, a mortal human. Two: Virginity, Mary being a virgin, a symbol of purity. The christian immaculate conception seems to parallel with other religions, such as the godesses Anahita and Isis, which is something interesting relating to the discussion of the origin of the dogma.


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18 Feb 2009, 12:47 pm

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anna-banana wrote:
immaculate conception always seemed quite ridiculous to me.

With current technology that can be possible nowadays.

From Christianity, immaculate conception would mean two things I believe, that he, his spirit, came from God instead of man and the woman was the means for a deity to become flesh, a mortal human. Two: Virginity, Mary being a virgin, a symbol of purity. The christian immaculate conception seems to parallel with other religions, such as the godesses Anahita and Isis, which is something interesting relating to the discussion of the origin of the dogma.


The production of a male from a female requires a male chromosome. Female water fleas give birth to only females if they are not impregnated by a male. So you cannot avoid a miracle in producing a male from an unimpregnated female unless either God or some other fascinating fellow had his way with Mary. Which leads to the interesting possibility that Christ was actually a female.