So, I've been thinking about Mary, lately. When I was growing up, I remember that Mary was actually a pretty kick-ass character in my litany of female biblical figures. You figure, there's this perfectly human woman who is visited by an angel of God and he tells her, "So yeah, I know your a virgin and your trying to get started in a new life with you husband, but BAM your pregnant" and she's like "Cool" and gives birth to the SON OF GOD! Plus, she's the lead female role in the church christmas pageant.

The older I got, though, people started to giving Mary a lot of flack. Mary was too pure, it seems. The other Mary was more interesting because she might have been a prostitute. The Virgin Mary was the center of cultist ideas, her role in the bible may have been fabricated as it doesn't appear in other gospels: blah, blah, blah. It was kind of annoying for me, because she was sort of my favorite. I mean Ruth was pretty neat, deciding to stay with her mother-in-law after her husband died, but I think her greatest achievement was getting married. Then, of course, we have Ester, who could be considered cool if her success was not boggarted by her Uncle. Delilah was evil. Eve was stupid (ooo, let's trust the snake!) and then who? The Witch of Endor? Bethsheba? Most of them are pretty accessory to biblical stories, not the center of them. But Mary? Mary was badass. Mary was cool.

Sometimes, I wonder if the church and/or the feminists are actually on my side! What if Mary really was the only decent example for godly women in the bible. I mean, Jesus works the same way, hunh? Well, Joseph was pretty cool, but pretty much every other man did very great things coupled with really dirty things. King David for instance: 1. devoted follower of God. 2. kickass wielder of a sling and 3. the guy who sent Bethsheba's husband to die in battle so that he could marry her! ...w007. Moses? Led the Jewish people out of Egypt, got the ten commandments, didn't speak a word of Hebrew and had most of his commandments translated through his long lost brother Aaron and last? Smacker of rock, a misdeed which keeps him from ever entering the promised land (okay, so that was a pretty raw deal). Point? The Bible is filled with mediocre heroes, otherwise known as: real people.

So, why is it so bad for a girl like me to look up to Mary? ... I don't know.

That's a petty interesting idea...
Plus this is the only time I've ever heard of Mary being "badass," so that's great too. :P
» middaymoon on 2010-08-29 09:50:39

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