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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic. -- Lionel Blue
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible. -- John Shelby Spong
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would. -- David Edward Jenkins
Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist. -- Christina Stead
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I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely... that the whole natural order is suspended or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie? -- Christopher Hitchens
This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her. .. the embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God. .. She conceived the Word of God. -- Charles Capps
And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth. -- George Carlin
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For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception. -- Bernard Katz
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children -- Richard Dawkins
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"? -- Karlheinz Deschner
The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.... -- Malcolm Muggeridge
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness. -- Olympia Brown
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would. -- David Edward Jenkins
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing. -- Elaine Pagels
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Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God. -- St. Jerome
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable. -- Bette Midler
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels. -- Anthony of Padua
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced. -- Fulton J. Sheen

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