Forget This 'Immaculate Conception' and Think Beyond
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
6 May 2023
“We need to
go beyond a theory of how Jesus may have been conceived by Mary without a
father and should be able to produce fatherless children. The Quran throws a
bigger challenge by saying that Jesus' birth is comparable to that of Adam whom
he produced without either parents...."
While I
respect the aforementioned views of the reader, I must state that the root
theory of Immaculate Conception in the Semitic faiths is a mythological
plagiarism from the Hinduism. Read Puranas (total 18 Puranas), Mahabharata and
Ramayana, you'll come across a number of characters who were born
'unconventionally', i.e., without the conventional sexual union between a man
and a woman. Karna (as a 'blessing' from the Sun), Ganesh (out of sandalwood,
without Shiva playing any role), Celibate Hanuman's son Makardhwaj, birth of
Dronacharya, birth of Kauravas (blessed by the sage Vyas), among others.
All these
weird births had a fallacious reason at their roots: The condemnation of male-female
union. That's why, even a judge in the Rajasthan High Court foolishly claimed a
few years ago that a peacock was celibate and it didn't impregnate a peahen by
having sex. A peahen would drink the teardrops of the peacock and conceive! One
good-looking fraud preacher Jaya Kishori (Jaya Sharma) still believes in this
stupidity and spreads the ridiculous 'fact' among her imbecile Hindu followers
who've permanently mortgaged their brains.
This
primordial condemnation of sex seeped into Semitic faiths. Talmudic literature
had a few references to 'fatherless' births. Christianity institutionalized it
by using a baffling Oxymoron like ' Virgin' Mary to assert that despite giving
birth to the putative Jesus, his mother was a Virgo Intacta or without a
ruptured hymen!
Religions
are obsessed with virginity and insertive sex. That's why, Vishwamitra
didn't/couldn't penetrate Menka and let his semen go in vain!
Since Islam
is the youngest of all three faiths and its book Quran is a compilation of
borrowings from the previous Books, it's ' Idhar Ki Iint, Udhar Ka
Roda/Bhanumati Ka Kunba Joda.' It, the Quran, went even further and
strangely claimed that Allah created Adam from the vacuum or Ex Nihilo.
Now the
point is: When all faiths and their hoary-old books are rife with such useless
'facts' and fancies, will this help the besieged mankind tackle much graver
issues at this juncture?
Agreed, one
can say that this will enable the modern genetics and genome studies in the
near or distant future. But that's far-fetched. All these mythological
characters born without their dads 'exerting' themselves in the bedroom, will
not lead you anywhere.
Instead,
try to become humans and see the whole humanity as your family sans any
religious stripes and nonsense.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul
is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He
has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian.
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