Friday, January 20, 2006

Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception: "I don't believe in Immaculate Conception.

It was a needful selling point for organized religions for the times. Every claimant to Godliness, or God-hood, claimed the same thing: Conceived by a God. Alexander the Great, Caesar, Caligula, and John the Baptist are just four historical figures for whom the claim for Immaculate Conception was made. I have read that there were many, many more.

It was a requirement, like a rock singer's long hair. It was needed then. It is not neeeded now. It sounds like a selling point thought up a couple of centuries later when the gospels were being written."... (click on link above to read entire article)

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