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Originally Posted by Sliver
So is the virgin birth, but I don't recall seeing any graphic depictions of Mary in labour.
As adults living in a western society we are pretty accustomed to the image, but if you step back and look at it objectively, it's unnecessarily violent and graphic. I would think Jesus standing there preaching would be more of an apt image of the man, particularly if I were Jesus. His message was more important than the fact that he was nailed to a cross, was it not?
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The fact that he died for our sins and allowed us to overcome original sin to allow us to get back to heaven is the entire point of the religion.
That overshadows every other part of it, as far as I understand, but I am not Catholic, so I could just be reading the wrong promotional information.