Rufus made a big point of the unlikelihood of Mary remaining a virgin during all her years of marriage to Joseph, and said the line of the Last Scion went back to Jesus' sibling(s). So, a blessed and free-of-original sin progenitor, but not actual divine origin.
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 27, 2006 12:54:03 pm PST #39 of 28094
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
esse - Feb 27, 2006 5:32:05 pm PST #40 of 28094
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
(ps love the thread title.)
DebetEsse - Feb 27, 2006 7:21:10 pm PST #41 of 28094
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Matt is right.
The Great great great great great great great great great grand-niece of Jesus Christ
My understanding is that there is a lot of stuff in DVC that's pretty much only from HBatHG, which had a good number of ideas exclusive to it (no, I don't remember a specific example. Some of the supporting stuff, not just the magdeline duaghter premise)
Betsy HP - Feb 28, 2006 8:25:58 am PST #42 of 28094
If I only had a brain...
It's pretty much only the Catholics who insist on the ever-virgin thing. Everybody else takes the line in the Bible about "the brothers of Jesus" at face value.
Calli - Feb 28, 2006 8:39:56 am PST #43 of 28094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It's pretty much only the Catholics who insist on the ever-virgin thing.
I kind of wonder about that. I mean, Mary was supposedly married to Joseph after Jesus's birth, right? Aren't married folks kind of supposed to go forth and multiply under Catholic doctrine? How does Mary staying a virgin after His birth make Jesus any more Jesus-y?
I suspect I should corner a nice Jesuit and ask him about this sort of thing.
Aims - Feb 28, 2006 9:14:27 am PST #44 of 28094
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We should find a Jesuit and make him a Buffista.
DXMachina - Feb 28, 2006 9:21:40 am PST #45 of 28094
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Aren't married folks kind of supposed to go forth and multiply under Catholic doctrine?
Mary and Joseph weren't Catholic. They were Jewish.
Fred Pete - Feb 28, 2006 9:33:54 am PST #46 of 28094
Ann, that's a ferret.
I also doubt that the Church these days would expect married couples to go forth. First, or maybe second if someone really important is around. But not as low as forth.
Calli - Feb 28, 2006 9:41:00 am PST #47 of 28094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Mary and Joseph weren't Catholic. They were Jewish.
True. And "Go forth and multiply" was a post-Flood thing, so I think it still works for them.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2006 9:43:42 am PST #48 of 28094
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
"Go forth and multiply" was a post-Flood thing, so I think it still works for them.
It's been ages since confirmation class, but IIRC, there are very specific rules in the Torah about how often married Jews are required to have sex, depending on what tribe you're from.