The text makes no sense to me. I mean, really, zero. "If Mary had a choice, she might have kept baby Jesus anyway". There's a 'had' missing there, for one thing, in the case of an event that already happened, so you can add ungrammatical to your list of adjectives. Overlooking that,
"If Mary had had a choice, she might have kept baby Jesus anyway"
In the context of a hypothetical work of fiction (or a hypothetical religion) in which Mary is forced to abort "baby Jesus", this makes sense. Since I thought the bible was clear (we're taking christian mythos at face value on this one for a moment) that Mary knew beforehand that she was carrying the child of her god, this would imply that she might have knowingly had an abortion. While the image of a fetal jesus returning from the dead to save the world *is* funny (imagine the items that would replace the crucifixion sculptures), I don't think that it was the intended meaning.
It's possible that somebody could have told her of all the suffering that would be caused in the name of her unborn child, though, and been persuaded to take that action, I suppose. I just don't get the message.
Alternately,
"If Hitler's mother had had a choice, she might have kept little Adolf anyway."
While bringing about the fulfillment of Godwin's Law, I think it's funny. I think this would qualify as an appropriate pro-death bumper sticker.
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Date: 2006-10-03 11:44 pm (UTC)The text makes no sense to me. I mean, really, zero. "If Mary had a choice, she might have kept baby Jesus anyway". There's a 'had' missing there, for one thing, in the case of an event that already happened, so you can add ungrammatical to your list of adjectives. Overlooking that,
"If Mary had had a choice, she might have kept baby Jesus anyway"
In the context of a hypothetical work of fiction (or a hypothetical religion) in which Mary is forced to abort "baby Jesus", this makes sense. Since I thought the bible was clear (we're taking christian mythos at face value on this one for a moment) that Mary knew beforehand that she was carrying the child of her god, this would imply that she might have knowingly had an abortion. While the image of a fetal jesus returning from the dead to save the world *is* funny (imagine the items that would replace the crucifixion sculptures), I don't think that it was the intended meaning.
It's possible that somebody could have told her of all the suffering that would be caused in the name of her unborn child, though, and been persuaded to take that action, I suppose. I just don't get the message.
Alternately,
"If Hitler's mother had had a choice, she might have kept little Adolf anyway."
While bringing about the fulfillment of Godwin's Law, I think it's funny. I think this would qualify as an appropriate pro-death bumper sticker.