People are afraid of love because you cannot experience it without also suffering pain and taking on responsibility. Also, it's a longterm proposition. Sex is a very brief experience which you can walk away from. The reason sex is being marketed so vigorously is because it gets people's attention and sells product. You can't market love. It's far too subtle and it cannot be controlled, marketed, or managed by any marketing outfit, therefore they don't bother much with it except to dance around it a bit by selling Valentines' cards and trivial stuff like that.

Ebbie - I think the Bible (and all other great religious texts) were written for 2 levels of comprehension. The ordinary people would read it literally, and end up believing all kinds of strange stuff. The spiritual adepts in the Mystery Schools and other adept orders would read it metaphorically and understand what it really meant. I think the idea of the immaculate conception would have been understood by an adept to refer to Mary's consciousness...in that she was in a disciplined and pure state of consciousness, moreso than your average person is. This would be very significant, indeed it is the primary objective of spiritual discipline...to refine and purify consciousness. The common people would, however, interpret it literally to mean she hadn't had sex with Joseph, and the Church doesn't care, because they are quite content to have the common people believe fables while the inner circle of adepts know something very different from those fables.

I don't know if anyone's born "without sin". ;-) It might be that we are all born without sin...or it might not. In any case, the way you get a pure consciousness is not by being born that way, but by developing it through a lot of hard work and self-discipline and love.