oh god, not this again with her "immaculate conception" bullshit
Posted Jul 13, 2014, 11:58 PM UTC
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Has no one else noticed that one of the women has a sword? I mean, why the hell is that there?!? I'll tell you why, satanists....or it's for cutting a roast, not really sure yet.
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I'm actually more confused by the half a spiked wagon wheel in her other hand. What is that?
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Of the fact that Jesus be all Chillin on that tit. Just hangin out like it ain't no thing to be chillin on a tit.
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learnerdruid is correct. St. Catherine's attributes are the sword and the spiked wheel, which she holds here for identification's sake, a common trope in religious art. The one with the book (and, importantly, in front of a tower) is St. Barbara. For extra credit, figs are a symbol of the virgin birth and Jesus, hence the dish the angel holds.
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Which reminds me, I need to start posting to r/hagiography again.
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I didn't know this was a thing. Awesome!
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I think it's St Catherine... Those are the things with which she was "martyred".
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obviously it's for circumcision
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And she looks pretty pleased about it too
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They are so white for Middle Eastern descent.
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What an original and noteworthy critique. You should check out east Asian depictions of Jesus, he looks east Asian in them. Every culture depicts characters from stories/history as looking like people from their own culture.
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There is a short story by Ray Bradbury about this, some missionaries on Mars discussing if it is proper to make Christ relatable to the Martians by showing them depictions of him as a Martian
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Israelis are Middle Eastern and look white too me.
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Ashkenazim are European. they make up the half of Israeli Jewish citizens. so about half of the Israelis that you've seen are white.
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I got mistaken for Syrian once or twice, and my family's all Irish.
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Baby Jesus has obviously seen better racks
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Jesus' face is like, "yea you see these holy titties? these are my holy titties"
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Couldn't make it past the titty to see what you were taking about
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Not even a nip slip? No wonder there is no NSFW markings, not even worth our time
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This is art/culture, I don't think you need a nsfw for that.
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Well if the owner walks in on me looking at that, she may ask me why I'm looking at soft-core porn, and not go for the gusto? At which point I then try to babble my way out of it and explain what Reddit is and why I'm not working... Just a scenario
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I see half nip
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So right, I didn't even zoom in until you said half nip, lazy me!!
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I like how everyone looks white European
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halo removable to facilitate breast feeding?
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Baby Jesus looks like Larry from the Three Stooges.
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Why does the lady on the far right have a freakin sword?
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I'm really not seeing the funny with this, is the title supposed to be the thoughts of the girl at the back or something?
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Yes. It's an angel.
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Ahahahaha the woman in the backs face!
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You think feeding the son of God earned that ginger a soul?
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NSFW111!!11!1!!!11!!11! DER WAS TIIITT
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I love how Jesus's face is all creeper status..."yeah that's right, I'm all up on this titty and you're just all sittin there all up on your computer." Jesus pwnd everyone in that one moment.
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I love the angel in the background rolling her eyes.
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Why that lady have her titty out?
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Feed the baby. Biology basics.
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"Girls gone wild", goes back further than you thought.
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Common misconception: "immaculate conception" refers to Mary's conception, not Jesus'
Please explain. I'm curious now that you mentioned it.
The immaculate conception is the idea that Mary was born without sin. The belief is that we are born into sin and therefore be redeemed. Mary was born without this sin so that she could have the virgin birth to Jesus.
Mary was the immaculate conception, Jesus was the virgin birth.
I've read this before, but I've never seen it explained why Mary was born without sin. What was so special about her? Are others born without sin as well?
I believe the logic is that God wanted a perfect woman to bear his son and original sin screws that up.
There, of course, are no biblical references to any of this. It's just catholic fan fiction turned dogma.
No, just Mary, it was a requirement that she be born without sin so that she could birth Jesus.
The million dollar question is: Did Mary require redemption?
Cool.
Thanks.
But what did/didn't she do that makes her without sin?
She didn't do anything. It was essentially setting her up so that Jesus could be born, that way he was born from someone without sin.
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yeah, i'm jewish... sorry for the misunderstanding.
Understandable, just thought it'd be some interesting knowledge to share since it is wrongly believed even amongst many Catholics so you're in good company!
Thank you for posting this. I've been taking night classes at a Catholic university, and I just learned this a few months ago. :-)
Or god rape
If we're here to be pedantic, the OP never stated that he thought otherwise.
Though, I didn't know that, so thanks.
Fortunately, this joke works regardless.
God's rules make for a very strange boardgame indeed.