She also could have been the victim of rape and Joseph trying to protect her, instead of her being a cheater and Joseph being dumb. If they both did exist of course.

"Which is more likely — that the whole natural order is to be suspended, or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?" - Christopher Hitchens

The thing is, the earliest versions of the gospels didn't contain a nativity story at all, instead starting with Jesus' baptism. The whole "virgin birth" thing was retconned in after the religion was already up and running.

Instead of circlejerking eachother this is the type of shit you guys should post more often. This is funny af

To be fair if picking the first option meant getting stoned to death for adultery, I would try my luck at the second option too.

Surprisingly, there is such a thing as virgin births. They're super rare, but also not a miracle.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/12/is-it-possible-for-a-virgin-to-give-birth.html#:~:text=Are%20natural%20human%20virgin%20births,real%20life%20are%20virtually%20zero.

"It was all because of that damn APPLE, im tellin' ya!"

...hey Joseph. Yeah. You know how we never have sex? YEAH! Well an angel came to me and I'm pregnant. JESUS CHRIST! Oh you already know about it!

I guess the pilgrims must have been on the good shit to not see the cap.

But wait. Assuming this isn’t Flortucky, how’s a 12-year-old pregnant person have the ability to consent to:

1. choose to marry
2. marry
3. sex
4. cheat, and then
5. sex again?

Mary was not married though.