Have decided to read Mary as a minor villain of Christian myth

Because of how she would have stopped the crucifixion if she had her way

It is absolutely canonical – Abraham and Isaac, Lot in Sodom, the crucifixion itself – that God favors a willingness to sacrifice your children to advance his interests; that she would have abandoned God’s greatest plan – the redemption of humanity through sacrifice of his own son – in the name of her maternal love is a key example of how mankind’s fallenness leads them to place their own petty wills before God’s