Virgin Birth Quotes:

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

topic: Hype, Long, Deception, Virgin Birth, Immaculate

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Block, Struggle, Mind, Mind Boggling, Stumbling Blocks

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

topic: Religious, Children, Miracle, Lazarus, Virgin Birth

What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!

- Bill Maher

source: "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

topic: Mean, Whales, Bullshit, Fairy Godmother, Virgin Birth

We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Spiritual, Live Life, Heart, Virgin Birth, Roots And Branches

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Jesus, Father, Brain, Minerva, World Religions

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

source: Malcolm Muggeridge (1985). “Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

topic: Educational, Believe, Media, Educational System, Thoroughness

What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?

- Rob Bell

topic: Christian, Religious, Jesus, Religious Cults, Virgin Birth

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

topic: Atheist, Believe, Angel, Ascension, Sorcery

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

source: George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

topic: Jesus, Sex, Mean, Original Sin, Immaculate Conception

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

- Flannery O'Connor

topic: Law, Soul, Church, Suspension, Virgin Birth

With God, all things are possible.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Jesus God, Jesus Words, Miracles Of God, Omnipotent, Impossible Situations

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

topic: Real, Character, Past, Brotherly Love, Virgin Birth

Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been.

- Frank Zindler

topic: Jesus, Hands, Turkeys, Virgin Birth

That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So Jesus' life was the life of God nurtured through the Virgin Mary. That's because the virgin birth died as a literal story as soon as we discovered that women had an egg cell. It's interesting to watch what the Roman church did about that.

- John Shelby Spong

source: Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

topic: Mother, Jesus, Father, Virgin Birth

The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Spiritual, Father, Real, Rite, Virgin Birth

... In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was noting unnatural about it.

- Heber C. Kimball

topic: Jesus, Father, Flesh, Virgin Birth

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

- David Jenkins

topic: Jesus, Past, Doubt, Virgin Birth

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

- Attila the Stockbroker

topic: Jesus Birth, Jesus God, Creation Of The Universe, King James Bible, Messenger Of God

And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Jesus, Father, Real, Designation, Virgin Birth

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

source: Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.498, The Miegunyah Press

topic: Mother, Trying, Papa, Virgin Birth

The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

- Dan Brown

topic: Jesus, Buddhist, Islamic, Torah, Virgin Birth

Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.

- Sam Harris

topic: Christian, Jesus, Ignorance, Jesus Birth, Sub Saharan Africa

You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. you can't be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins."

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Jesus, Names, People, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Birth

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

topic: Miracle, Casting, Birth, Epileptics, Virgin Birth

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Easter, Answers, Causes, Forsaken, Crucifixion

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Religion, Atheism, Divinity, Virgin Birth

In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We do not, of course, know all these laws yet, but I believe that such laws exist. I do not, therefore, believe in the literal truth of some miracles which are featured in the Christian Scriptures, such as the Virgin Birth or water into wine. ... God works, I believe, within natural laws, and, according to natural laws, these things happen.

- Nevill Francis Mott

topic: Christian, Believe, Wine, Firm Beliefs, Virgin Birth

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

topic: Keys, Understanding, Spirit, Virgin Birth, Embryos

I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.

- Marcus Borg

topic: Christian, Jesus, Easter, Virgin Birth

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Jesus, Father, Men, Virgin Birth