Okay, so it's time for my absolutely sacrilegious thought of the day. Being that I'm Jewish 'n' all, I tend to dismiss many of the legends surrounding Jesus Christ as myths. And being that I'm pretty steeped in science, I tend to dismiss religion in general mostly because I have no hard proof of the existence of God or other Powerful Beings or miracles of that sort. So, given all that, I find it a little hard to believe in the possibility of immaculate conception. I had this thought that maybe Mary wasn't as chaste as can be, and she messed up and got pregnant. It's a whole lot easier to invoke God's name and say that God spoke to you and told you he impregnated you rather than confess to screwing around on your husband, and it'll get you off the hook pretty easily, especially given the fact that 2000 years ago, religion played a much bigger role in life than it does today. Rather than confess to the sin of adultery -- something that could get her and her lover stoned to death by the villagers of Bethlehem -- she told a lie, and both an illegitimate child and a religion were born. The kid didn't even have to look like Joseph because he wasn't the father, "God" was and who knows what God looks like? All she and her lover had to do was keep their mouths shut. Or maybe she didn't sleep around, maybe she was chaste, but she and Joseph were kidding around one night and thought it'd be funny to tell their friends that Mary is pregnant with God's child. Then one person told ten people and those ten people told ten people... and soon it just built up to where the tale had been perpetuated to the point that it couldn't be called back in or be undone. To be undone after so many people heard about it would be sacrilegious and both Mary and Joseph would get stoned to death, so they kept their little practical joke a secret to the grave in that situation. Eh. Just some more of the insanity that pops up in my warped brain. I'll just sit back and watch the nickelodeon explode now as I'm either applauded for making people laugh or burned in effigy for being a heathen.