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  • Honestly I agree, I only pointed it out because of the irony of a pedant insisting others ought to use words according to their formal definitions while misusing formal English.

    “Right” is a bad word to end a sentence with

    “Right” is a bad word with which to end a sentence because it can be mis-parsed as as an invitation to agreement.



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    Also as a non-christian: I think you’ve got it backwards. Christians believe that she was a virgin because they believe Jesus was their god. Basically that it doesn’t make sense to them that a perfect being could be gestated inside a dirty sex having woman, so it must be that she was a virgin.

    Also Jesus had a habit of giving people nicknames (eg Simon Peter - the rock) I could see him having a disciple Mary the virgin and another one Mary the mother that got conflated. There’s no evidence for this but idk it still seems more likely than virgin birth.









  • I’ve dropped this Propagandhi quote on Lemmy before but I’ll take any excuse to do it again:

    is this what we deserve

    To scrub the palace floors

    To fight amongst ourselves

    As we scramble for the crumbs they spit up

    Frothing at the

    Mouth about the

    Scapegoats that they’ve

    Chosen for us

    If they no longer

    Represent us

    Is it not our obligation

    To confront this tyranny