WashPost, Daily Beast Mark Christmas By Attacking Jesus, Virgin Mary
By Matthew Balan | December 21, 2016 | 10:59 PM EST
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The Washington Post and The Daily Beast targeted the dogma of the virgin birth of Jesus to Mary of Nazareth, mere days before Christmas, the holiday where Christians mark this central tenet of their faith. Ruth Everhart claimed in her December 16, 2016 item for the Post's Acts of Faith site that the Christian churches have turned Mary's story into an "idol of sexual purity." Heterodox scholar Candida Moss followed two days later in a Daily Beast article that hyped the question of whether or not Jesus's mother was actually a virgin.
Everhart, a minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), led her piece, "Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary. As a rape victim, that hurts me," by setting up her theory about the apparent distortion of the Virgin Mary: "Church culture tends to be fixated on sexual purity year-round, but during Advent, I'm tempted to blame it on the Virgin Mary. After all, she set an impossibly high bar. Now the rest of us are stuck trying to be both a virgin and a mother at the same time."
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http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/matthew-balan/2016/12/21/washpost-daily-beast-mark-christmas-attacking-jesus-virgin-mary
