An Unusual Birth
Ralph Nielsen nielsen@uidaho.edu
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:47:00 -0800 (00880004820, v03007803b0992aa856a2@[129.101.112.76])
>At 01:08 PM 11/19/97 -0800, Helen Willis wrote:
>>I actually read this thing a long time ago I think. The only thing I really
>>remember about it was it claimed that Mary gave birth and that even after
>>the
>>baby was out of her, she was still a physical virgin. ( The old rubber hymen
>>trick....bong). The Reader Digest Who's Who in the Bible in it's article on
>>Mary (I know not a great source, but the best I could find this quick).
>
>TILL
>Some apocryphal works claimed that Jesus was born through a hole
>miraculously put into Mary's side so that he would not be tainted by passing
>through the normal birth canal.
>
RALPH
That's exactly how the Buddha was born five hundred years earlier. What a
copycat Jesus was!