The Virgin Mary is a queen bee

Definition: Virgin Mary - Viewed by Christians and the Bible as being the mother of Jesus who was miraculously conceived while Mary was still a virgin. [1] Queen Bee - The single reproductive female in a hive or colony of honeybees. [2] Rebuttals: "The Virgin Mary is just a representation of the queen bee. Ancient people thought that the queen bee was a virgin because they didn't have the technology to follow the queen bee in flight." Pro implies that since the ancients did not have the technology back then to keep up with the way a queen bee mates that they assumed she gave birth without engaging in sexual activities. However, thanks to the technology that can be found in our world today, we can see that the queen bee does engage in sexual activities in order to reproduce [3]. "Thus, the idea of the immaculate conception came about because ancient people thought that the queen bee was a virgin and gave birth without any sex." Pro explains how the theory of the Virgin Mary is a representation or symbol of the queen bee as the ancients believed that the queen gave birth without any sexual interaction with other bees. However, in the video that Pro put for his sources, we can see how the queen interacts with those found within the swarm as the video shows how the queen will have sexual interactions with the other bees found within the swarm. "Thus, the Virgin Mary is just a symbol of the concept of virgin birth which was thought of as some kind of a religious miracle" Pro states that the Virgin Mary is just a symbol of virgin birth and the virgin birth was some sort of religious miracle that took place in the bible. Pro is right in this instance due to the fact that the Virgin Mary is in fact a symbol of virgin birth for she was heavily favored by the lord to remain a virgin but carry the son of God. "And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin? And the angel answered her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy""the Son of God." Luke 1:34-35 [4] Arguments: The topic of this debate is that the Virgin Mary is a queen bee which means that the Virgin Mary is seen as a single reproductive female according to the definition of a queen bee. Allow me to switch the sides of the this debate when I say the bee is seen as a representation of Virgin Mary rather than the Virgin Mary is a representation of the queen bee. The bee is often seen as a symbol of virginity as the working bees have no part in the reproduction of the species except for feeding the babies. The reproduction is often done by the queen bees and the drones which leads to the reproduction of more bees that will eventually be took care of by the worker bees [5]. Therefore, the Virgin Mary is not seen as a representation of a queen bee for the queen bee does in fact have sexual relations with the drones in her colony while the Virgin Mary never had any sexual relations with Joseph or any other man for that matter. 1. http://dictionary.reference.com... 2. http://dictionary.reference.com... 3. http://www.theguardian.com... 4. http://www.openbible.info... 5. http://catholicism.org...