I intend no offense, but I’ve always wondered if Mary’s “virgin” birth was a narrative pushed by her significant others to cover up rape or incest, or perhaps that she was a prostitute and got knocked up.
After all, the alternative was probably getting stoned to death, and maybe her family forgave her and engineered a pious deception to cover up a youthful sexual indiscretion. This might have been particularly important if incest was involved.
I find it interesting that Mary Magdeline may have possibly been adulterous, a prostitute, or maybe both, and has the same first name as Jesus’s mother. Maybe the identity of Jesus’s mother was changed and manipulated to obscure the idea that she was a “fallen woman?”
It is also interesting that Jesus seemed to have an affinity for the dirtbags and lowlifes of society (which–by some criteria–I actually qualify as).
So maybe Jesus was a “trick baby?”