Common Misconceptions: Immaculate Conception

I hate when the media continues to misconstrue the meaning of things and how it propagates the culture. And I'm not even Catholic. And barely Christian. Is Christian non-believer a denomination? Non-Catholic Christians aren't even supposed to believe or care about the immaculate conception according to doctrine. So why do they always get it wrong?

Immaculate conception is the conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus, through normal heterosexual vaginal intercourse, but without the stain of original sin, and not the virginal conception of Jesus by the said same Mary and the Holy Spirit. Original sin being the result of a certain garden, a certain fruit of knowledge and experience (likely a pomegranate), a certain fall; being the reason we're all going to hell if not for His sacrifice. Now only most of us are going to hell.

Now was that so hard to understand?

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Spear of Longinus

The spear of Longinus is the holy lance which pierced the side of Him that is Jesus Christ as he was on the cross. This piercing was undertaken by a Roman soldier, ostensibly named Longinus, like a little doe-eyed child curiously poking the body of a dead drifter he found in the woods, washed up on a bankside, beside some train tracks. "Yeah, it turns out he's dead." "So that's was a dead body looks like. Poke. Poke. Poke.

The lance was a much sought after objet for its occult value. It was said that during World War II Adolf Hitler himself was in possession of the lance, wielding its magical power and preventing Superman's entrance into the European theatre alongside the Allied Forces and affecting a quick victory for the good guys.

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Common Misconceptions: A.D.

A.D. is the Latin "anno domini", not "after death". Anno domini stands for "in the year of our lord. After death stands for nothing. But if you, anybody, keeps on using "after death", the only solution is to propose a new calendar starting in the year 33 A.D. on the Gregorian calendar, otherwise thought to be the (most common of the disputed) traditional year of Jesus Christ's death. This will create a third calendar epoch: During Christ or D.C. Thus we have B.C., D.C., and A.D. Welcome to the year 1975 A.D.