If anyone who is acquainted with the customs of "Christianity" can illuminate the following matter I would be most grateful:
A few weeks ago I set out to familiarize myself with the various winter celebrations that are marked here, such as Yule, the Solstice, and the New Year. Christmas, a holiday of "Christianity" (who could have guessed) was one of these. I've made peace with the red-clad trespasser who stalks children (although I can't find anything more than a tenuous link to the central religious conceit of the holiday), but what's actually confusing me are the texts that tell the story of a god child who is the product of - this is where I'm lost - a virgin birth.
????? That's -- most unusual! And rather frightening, at least in my world. Magic that can produce a child out of nothing is---
VERY VERY BAD not tasteful. Do your gods not have interest in sexual intercourse? Because ours would likely flirt with a street lamp if the street lamp seemed into it. I know. I have been that street lamp, metaphorically speaking. I was not into it.
Anywho. I'm certain the virginity of the god child's mother was just a-- phrase mistranslation, right? And not a-- central tenet to the religion as it appears to be? Right? Because surely an influential religion can't have such an obsession with the notion of purity that it creates an impossible standard to live up to and never mind, I've answered my own question and am now deeply depressed, help.