Apparently, someone’s humanity has been questioned for asking the following question:
Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit? A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.”
As a Methodist Christian, I have often wondered about whether Jesus and Mary Magdalene were lovers. The Gospels allude to it so often that this speculation is a never-ending growth industry, witness the DaVinci Code.
Anyone who reads the Gospels knows that Jesus was enamored with women, and women were enamored with him. Are Christians supposed to deny the Gospels to show their allegiance to the Gospels? Must we burn the book to show our reverence for the book?
As a Methodist Christian, I think it is extremely likely (near 100 percent) that Yeshu (Jesus Christ) and the woman we know as Mary Magdalene were lovers. Good for them. Not good that Yeshu was crucified. That was very bad.
But writing about it — as Ms. Marcotte does above — in very simple, straightforward words far less explicit than much Greek writing of the same period (ie. 100 B.C. – 0 A.D.) is no problem.
Finding a problem with it, as apparently John Edwards’ campaign has, just brings us back to the 9th century and all of its illiterate, flat earth glories.
Jesus was a real guy. He definitely had sex with women before he was crucified. Sperm was released. He was human. And male. Male have sperm. It gets released. Get over it.
Jesus.