From Crooked Media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy. If you're listening to this episode on Christmas Day, let me just say, wow, Merry Christmas, y'all.

And to those who do not observe Christmas,

happy almost making it to the end of this incredibly dastardly

at God-forsaken year.

You've got one week left, so buckle up. Last week week we debunked all sorts of myths and

fallacies about the star of Christmas, one Jesus Christ. This week though I want to

talk about the woman who made all of this possible.

Mary!

You might know Mary as the miraculous version

who defied all the odds to give birth to her baby boy.

Of course, that baby would then become the son of God.

spoiler, and go on to shape world religion and politics for centuries.

No big.

Mary is a beloved figure.

All over the world, pilgrimages are made to places where she's believed to have appeared.

She also holds ubiquity as the most prominent woman in the Christian faith,

a religion that's pretty much all about the guys.

But just like there's been some intense revision about Jesus Christ,

I was wondering what the Bible really says about Mary.

Is it revisionist about her too? In other words, in the famous words of Thai from clueless,

is Mary a virgin who can't drive? To help me find out what may have been lost in

translation I'm welcoming my friend the feminist theologian Megan Wadderson who's the

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