You guys have no idea how lucky you are that we made it past the entire Christmas season without my making fun of the Virgin Mary once!
Ever since this post, I’ve been incensed by the whole “Virgin” Mary concept. It’s actually caused some heated arguments between my friends and I. See, I think that if Mary was a virgin, then Joseph deserves all of the praise. I mean, this guy stuck around even though his wife refused to sleep with him. He stayed with her even after she became pregnant with another man’s child. Then, when she was 8 months pregnant, he traveled with her to his ancestral homeland to take part in a census.1 And this isn’t even to mention the fact that he stuck around to raise another man’s child and train him in carpentry.
If we praise Mary for being chaste and virtuous, we should also praise Joseph for being patient. That’s all I’m saying.2
Quick note: if you have one of those nativity scenes, the three wise men should arrive about now. It’s the epiphany, don’t you know?
Uhm.
I {heart} you.
For real.
Sometimes I blog only for these random sorts of comments.
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Oh, man. And here I was thinking you could make it through the entire season without damning yourself to hell. Again.
Silly Pixel!
🙂 Now I’m just aiming for the Bart Simpson strategy of repenting on my deathbed. It’s not full coverage, but nothing is. And the monthly cost is far lower.