How odd Christian beliefs about sex shape the world
Despite their shaky grounding in scripture
The worry was the Virgin Mary’s vagina. Early Christians were very clear on some things. They knew that the Holy Spirit had made the Virgin Mary pregnant but that she was still a virgin. What they were not quite sure about was how those two things could both be true. How, in short, had God got in?
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Christianity’s sex addiction”
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