What about the immaculate conception?

What about the immaculate conception? as you seem to believe in Christ, and tell us that you have already met him.

I have this to tell you that there have been thousands and thousands of immaculate conceptions, consequently, I am constrained to think that Jesus might have been one who was thus begotten. 

Any child that is begotten by parents who love each other with pure holy love is immaculately conceived, and will, probably, live to be a bright and shining light in the world.

I did not ask the man of Nazareth who his parents were when I met him. 

I thought, as he does, that it mattered very little who they might have been. 

Whoever they were, they should have been happy to have brought forth such a son. 

Herr Franz has already told you of Jesus, and I can say no more, or different, from that which he has already said on the subject—

But, of the atonement, a few words, I think, may not be amiss. 

My former ideas of the atonement have not changed in the least. 

No one can wash a sinner clean, but himself. 

Never cherish a doubt but that he will be obliged to do his own washing. 

Jesus was a man like other men—a reformer—like many other reformers—and he was treated, as hundreds of other reformers have been—

He is a bright and shining angel now, as I can bear witness. 

When I found, shortly after coming here, that Jesus and his apostles really lived, I was eager to meet them, and I have met Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; but really, these angels can teach me no more that a thousand others who are equally bright and shining.

—Spirit Robert G. Ingersoll