Female author claims God raped Mary, mother of Jesus

Tarico wrote an article on rape and religion, trying to prove that rape is intrinsic to Christianity with the phenomenon that God raped Mary the mother of Jesus

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Valerie Tarico is an anti-Christian who claims she hates Jesus Christ, hates men and hates women who love them.

In a recent article on Salon.com, Tarico wrote an article on rape and religion, trying to prove that rape is intrinsic to Christianity with the phenomenon that God raped Mary the mother of Jesus.

“Powerful gods and demi-gods impregnating human women – it’s a common theme in the history of religion, and it’s more than a little rapey,” Tarico writes.

“The impregnation process may be a ‘ravishing’ or seduction or some kind of titillating but nonsexual procreative penetration,” she adds.

To show she is truly anti-religion, Tarico talks about some mythical stories involving Zeus, Jupiter, Buddha, and others, before finally zeroing in on the true targets of her anger: Christ, Mary, and God the Father.

Tarico says:"Though the earliest Christians had a competing story, in the Gospel of Luke, the Virgin Mary gets pregnant when the spirit of the Lord comes upon her and the power of the Most High overshadows her. … Mary assents after being not asked but told by a powerful supernatural being what is going to happen to her, “Behold the bond slave of the Lord: be it done to me …”

Who needs consent, freely given? If he’s a god, she’s got to want it, right? That is how the stories play out.

Whether or not the delectable young thing puts up a protest, whether or not seduction requires deception, whether or not the woman already has a husband or love, whether or not she is physically forced, the basic assumption is that the union between a god and a woman is overwhelming in an orgasmic way, not a bloody, head-bashed-against-the-ground kind of way. And afterwards? Well, what woman wouldn’t want to be pregnant with the son or daughter of a god?"

“Powerful men not only want to control the valuable commodity of female fertility, they should. Gods ordain it and model it. And they prescribe punishments for those – especially females – who violate the proper order of things,” she asserts.

Within a society that treats female sexuality as a male possession , the only consent that can be violated is the consent of a woman’s owner, the man with the rights to her reproductive capacity – typically her father, fiancé, or husband . Many Christians are surprised when told that nowhere in the Bible, either Old Testament or New, does any writer say that a woman’s consent is necessary or even desirable before sex.

“This omission is more than regrettable, it is tragic,” she says.

"But even closer to home for many is the shocking prevalence on college campuses and in society at large of sexual manipulation and coercion perpetrated by males who otherwise seem morally intact. One can’t help but notice that a large number of high profile cases involve high status males: fraternity members, a famous actor, a radio host, small town football stars and big league professional athletes – men, in other words, who think they are gods."

“Convinced of their own deific qualities, it just follows that the object of their [men’s] attentions has gotta want it – and if she doesn’t, well, that’s fine too, because when a god wants a woman, consent isn't really part of the story, ” Tarico concluded.