Haha, it seems likely that ‘I was impregnated by a passing god’ was a common explanation for pregnancies (when the real explanation was, y’know, awkward), so it was lying around when early Christians were building up the backstory of Christ.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@faraiwe/112202220363396049
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2024-04-04 15:24:01
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