That's what I thought it referred to also, but the specific phrase has nothing to do with virginity. It isn't Jesus's conception it's talking about. It's that Mary was conceived without original sin.
The immaculate part was that she was without sin. Just learned that recently, but I grew up protestant, so that wasn't a thing for us.
We got lectured by a museum volunteer in Greece. My wife took my picture as I imitated the tragedy face next to one.Example: She said it wasn't respectful to their culture and to please not post it on the internet. I thought those faces were about theater, so mimicking them would make total sense, but whatever.
That type of diffuse, guerilla warfare is how modern civil wars generally go.The first several episodes of It Could Happen Here are revealing on this.
The efficiency comes at scale, not diffuse small farms.GMOs yes.Modern farming is less labor-intensive, not sure on your point there.Ag land use down 21.7% 1950-2002 Source. Downward trend continues through 2024 Source.
We had half the population in the US in 1960, and a bit more than a third of today's number globally.
You are easily surprised