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• Wednesday, October 1, 2008 10:22 PM

  the Virgin Birth and the Immaculate Conception

  at various places in the Old Testament, it is prophesied that 'a virgin shall give birth'; various Christian preachers in the first couple centuries after the time of Christ's human existence wove those Old Testament prophesies together as a way of justifying the primacy of the worship of Christ

  much later, after the religious ritual of Baptism had been instituted as the formal and official way to wash away the taint of Adam and Eve's Original Sin, it was reasoned that God the Father would have wanted the female human, who would carry His Son, to be pure and unsullied by the taint of Original Sin and thus, the concept of the Immaculate Conception came about

  this is standard Catholic theology, which as a result of 8 years in a Catholic elementary school, 4 years in a Catholic high school for young men and two years at a Catholic college, is part of my reasoning process

  I accept this stuff even though it may sound rather fanciful to someone else but that is the thing about "faith", there are some things that simply defy all logic

  I will probably attend this movie and laugh at the crazy parts of my faith; I saw "Dogma" and I groaned at the illogical parts of my faith

  But as I have said, faith quite often defies all logic

  —Tom in Central Illinois Read Tom in Central Illinois's other letters
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