{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Have decided to read Mary as a minor villain of Christian myth\nBecause of how she would have stopped the crucifixion if she had...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/185832752403/", "html": "<p>Have decided to read Mary as a minor villain of Christian myth</p><p>Because of how she would have stopped the crucifixion if she had her way</p><p>It is absolutely canonical \u2013 Abraham and Isaac, Lot in Sodom, the crucifixion itself \u2013 that God favors a willingness to sacrifice your children to advance his interests; that she would have abandoned God&rsquo;s greatest plan \u2013 the redemption of humanity through sacrifice of his own son \u2013 in the name of her maternal love is a key example of how mankind&rsquo;s fallenness leads them to place their own petty wills before God&rsquo;s</p>"}