The stories we have read were all similar in the sense the pregnancy all came about through a divine birth. The same story is told repeatedly in the Bible. A woman who is either unable to get pregnant or a virgin suddenly gets a swollen belly. Now as some people truly believe that these births were significant and true, I want to question what the patriarchy of the time really thought. It seems impossible to be that a women would not immediately be casted out or stoned to death when she is found pregnant without a husband (in the case of Mary) at the time of antiquity. Ever since I was a child, I have always thought that there was no possible way Mary was pregnant with the Son of God. Given her age, I thought it was more likely that her teenage lover got her pregnant and she had some explaining to do towards Joseph.
What is even more surprising is that these stories all snuck into the canon and become granted with great authority. I can only imagine how small the number of pages that exist glorifying women and who they bring into the world or give them any importance at all. The genealogies are usually only highlights the father, the mother is a lot more inconsequential.
These stories all strike me as odd, because the patriarchy will choose to believe in immaculate conception as long as it’s from a god they believe in. The possibility of a cheating wife is all fine as long as they child will come out a son of god. It just makes no sense.
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