yo not to be totally un-catholic but like... is anyone else :s about the dogma surrounded mary that says she was born without original sin??? because the Whole Point of mary is that she was a poor teenage girl who was a refugee under an oppressive, violent government, and it’s precisely because she was powerless that God chose her ??? like mary is meant to show that anyone, even a poor teenage refugee, can be holy.Â
tbh i think they slapped on the term “immaculate conception” just so they could ignore all those other facts and put her on a pedestal for purity. and what also makes me SO uncomfy is that catholicism literally teaches “since she was born without sin, she could not nothing but fulfill the will of god”
like ??? hello ???? way to take away her agency in saying “yes” to carrying and giving birth to a child that would be the savior of the world like what the FUCK. also if she’s supposed to be the example of having faith in God, then what the hell kind of chance do we poor fucks have if we were born with sin and she wasn’t?
but then there’s our lady’s apparition at lourdes, who said “je suis l'immaculee conception” (i am the immaculate conception) so i’m like :’’) fuck what if im wrong. though i have prayed about it a lot because it truly fucks me up, and like...the vibe i get is that the word “conception” isn’t meant to mean the moment a sperm and egg come together to form a person, but instead as an idea? if that make sense? like the idea that God wanted to become human through the power of a young teenager in otherwise powerless circumstances, that is the immaculate part. none of this nonsense about being born without sin.
idk y’all the feast day is comin up on the 8th and i’m :’) dying lol