Handmaid of the Lord

[Cartoonist]

[vlyons]

1. Virgin birth

What a joke!

[pangaia]

2. It's just a cartoon, after all.

[dhol82]

3. Who was Elizabeth?

My biblical knowledge is somewhat sketchy.

[vlyons]

4. Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist

wife of Zechariah. John and Jesus were cousins. There is no such thing as a "virgin birth." Just like there is no such thing as a body coming back to life after 3 days of death. And no such thing as Jesus defying gravity and floating up to heaven, which presumably is somewhere in the sky, but never found by any telescope.

Assuming that there was a real, historical Jesus, why isn't it enough to just accept his teachings about compassion and live up to them?

[Pendrench]

5. Hi Cartoonist - Thank you for posting this.

It brought back happy memories of the "May Crowning" ceremony that we used to celebrate back when I was in grade school.

This is one of the songs that we used to sing....it's still one of my favorites:

Thank you again - wishing you well and peace!

Tim

[Bretton Garcia]

6. If there are no virgin conceptions?

Some suggest Mary was propositioned/raped by a human lord.

[Cartoonist]

7. According to Steve King (R)

Some Roman probably raped her. Or maybe it was her father.

[Bretton Garcia]

8. Some Jewish tradition confirms....

Jesus was a "mamzer"; half Jewish, half blue eyed Roman. Son of a Roman soldier whose name is known.

The legend says Jesus was accepted as Jewish - until one day his headdress slipped. And revealed his blue eyes.

[Bretton Garcia]

9. "Pantera'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Abdes_Pantera

[Voltaire2]

10. Seems a bit more likely than god rape.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. I wonder why the artist chose to depict them as white people?