John Edwards' blog mastress Amanda Marcotte, blogging yesterday:

"The Christian version of the virgin birth is generally interpreted as super-patriarchal, where god is viewed as so powerful he can impregnate without befouling himself by touching a woman, and women are nothing but vessels." 

I italicized the "is generally interpreted" just because that's the part that made me laugh out loud.  Being an Old Testament guy, this isn't my exactly my home turf, but do Christians really "generally interpret" the virgin birth as "super-patriarchal"?  Who knew?  You guys are nuts! And here I thought phrases like "super-patriarchal" were the exclusive property of angry gyno-warriors.

UPDATE: Having re-read the quote, I'm pretty sure it's not one of Amanda's notoriously side-splitting attempts at satire.  After all, there are no obscenities.

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