Good point. It's amazing that most religions don't realize this at all. The concept of virgin birth seems to be felt by most westerners to be a unique christian concept but it was a common theme in mystical buddism and hinduism , never to be taken literally, but was a symbolic way of conferring "god like status". I think at one point the Greeks said Plato or socrates were a product of virgin births. I remember reading the gospel of Mark or Pauls book ( can't remember what it was) in Dalat school and reading that jesus had a brother james and even sisters and possibley more brothers. Mary didn't seem so virginal to me after that.
In fact, jesus's life and budda's were so compatible it was a buddist monk that converted my Taiwanese mom to christianity. He told her she could be a good buddist by conducting her life like Jesus. She had just met my American father and her monk felt that conversion would preserve their marriage upon return to the US.
http://samsonblinded.org/christianity/category/from-hinduism-and-buddhism
Of course,he did not know my father was Quaker, and they are universalists and not exlusionists like other christian sects. ( Meaning she could have remained a buddist and still accepted the tenets of quakerism)
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