Christmas stamps. No’s 362-364.

The notion that the Virgin - as a mother, is a perfect example of womanhood, someone to worship, to believe in and model oneself after comes from her purity that stems from the annunciation. This exempts her from the consequences of the original sin which Eve precipitated and therefore implicates and prejudges the rest of us. She is other, yet we personify her as THE MOTHER, religion and art are entwined to create a passive, submissive audience

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