LOL
lots of history-challenged folk out there.
Dan Brown is being given credit for something he didn't "make up/"
Good grief - the Internet - and history - is at your fingertips.
The assertion/belief/legend that MM and Jesus were married, etc, has been out there for 2000 years. There are books, accounts, etc - hundreds of years old on this.
In addition, just in the past 20-30 years, many book have come out on this - maybe Laurence Gardner and Margaret Starbird's books are the most prominent - both of whom are in a position of knowledge, education and access to records that render their books far above 'trash'
And their books are NOT fiction - as Brown's is - I find it amusing that there are books now that claim to expose the "lies" of Brown's book - a book of "fiction."
Whenever someone tells me not to read or watch or research something, I get suspicious. Seems like an elitist attitude - supposing they can better decide for me, like my mind is obviously inferior.
Here's something that will upset many an applecart = especially the inference that to the MM and Jesus relationship being a Dan Brown invention...
an obvioulsy pregnant MM - The inscription reads "Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken from her" (Window in European church - long before there was a Dan Brown ;o)
Besides, what is so insidious about the thought that Jesus may have been married ? - Are they saying marriage is sacrilegious - or that, were Jesus married, as was the REQUIREMENT of a Jewish man - and more strictly, a Rabbi - somehow makes Jesus any less than He was? His main message was to show/teach us "the Way" to live our lives...
Seems to me that the human family is the whole reason for God having created us in the first place, and as such, a holy institution. Why wouldn't Jesus take part in it?