in a "shock survey of anglican bishops" in june 1984 it was revealed that 31 of their 39 bishops thought that "christ's miracles, the virgin birth and the resurrection might not have happened exactly as described in the bible."

in deference to the bishops of the church of england (the "anglicans") the church of scotland most respectfully omitted any reference to the "virgin birth" from its most recent publication "a statement of faith." the topic of the miraculous conception of jesus (pbuh) is getting increasingly hotter for western christianity to handle as you see here: