I'm going to present some "blasphemy" regarding religion/women's rights/abortion. [View all]

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The lynchpin of the Fundamentalist Birth Cult (AKA "pro-lifers" ) is that they believe god will be mad at them if an abortion interrupted the "Second Coming" of Jesus.

The easy response to this is that any deity worth their salt could probably make sure that didn't happen.

The entire "virgin birth" myth is the underpinning of the Christ mythos.

The Bible is essentially a amalgamated almanac of useful "good living" information and history written and translated by hundreds of people including elevated parables about real people and practices, many of which have become essentially moot in modern times. An example:

And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

In today's context, the Bible is the "word of God" even though god didn't write it. It was accumulated history and wisdom meant to benefit everyone.

They said pork was "unclean" in the eyes of god - primarily because there was no technology to process that meat in sanitary fashion so it was not a dangerous health risk. Today most people can safely eat pork if it's not against their personal beliefs.

In this same line of thinking, the terrifying fridge logic is that the "immaculate conception" might have been a young girl or woman who was married or betrothed but the relationship was not yet consummated and she became pregnant allegedly without doing the deed.

Who is to say this girl either didn't completely understand how babies were made and was taken advantage of, or wasn't a virgin as expected and didn't want to admit to that fact?

Remember back then they used to often stone women to death for doing the dirty on the down-low.

A young woman who was either betrothed or married where they hadn't yet consummated the relationship I'm guessing didn't have a lot of options to explain away an unexpected pregnancy.