{"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/185834880528/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://ethnianmandarin.tumblr.com/post/185834569873/have-decided-to-read-mary-as-a-minor-villain-of\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ethnianmandarin</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"/post/185832752403/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Have decided to read Mary as a minor villain of Christian myth</p>\n<p>Because of how she would have stopped the crucifixion if she had her way</p>\n<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\u2019s 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 man\u2019s fallenness leads them to place their own petty wills before God\u2019s</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>br\u00f6ther this is h\u00ebr\u00ebsy</p>\n<p>the holy cross is the new tree of life, mary is the new eve.</p>\n<p>the original sin was when eve took the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, making eve the original sinner. edenologists all agree, eve should have waited and then eventually god would bid her to eat from the tree of life and so on in saecula saeculorum. they disagree about whether the tree of life was the same as the tree of knowledge of good and evil</p>\n<p>when mary stood at the foot of the holy cross, then it was the tree of knowledge good and evil (because just look at it). mary taking the fruit down from this tree would be repeating the cycle of trauma again. any other mother, conceived in original sin, would of course have tried, but mary didn\u2019t, confirming new eve status.</p>\n<p>the reward for doing god\u2019s will - which as i remind you, mary being without sin means it is her will also - was that she, and through her all mankind, instead got to take the fruit from the tree of life. yes, that\u2019s jesus again, the multivalent fruit. the image here is the pieta.</p>\n<p>this stuff is edgy enough without ur turning people on their heads</p>\n</blockquote><p>Oh, that&rsquo;s just girls&rsquo; fanon that the creative team started indulging, totally contrary to the spirit of the original creator</p>"}