[MonroeDNA]

As a recovering catholic, I left the church a long time ago. The hocus-pocus stuff, partiarchy, anti-sex, dark-forbooding atmosphere, and guilt-as-a-cult did not mesh with my idea of what God wanted.

Having read the Davinci code, and done some research, I am more likely to come back to christianity. Seems to me that God wants families, and no guilt over sex. Jesus marrying, and having a kid, appeals to me.

As far as opus die, etc., I've been exposed enough to fruitcakes hiding behind their version of religeon. Those types, and the folks who insist that words in a book compiled by an emperor are the last word, drive people away.

Just like Christmas is not Christ's birthday.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

But..it's just fiction. Ask many of the posters on this thread. You were never supposed to believe it, don't you know?

[af_vet_rr]

Seems to me that God wants families, and no guilt over sex. Jesus marrying, and having a kid, appeals to me.

Marrying, sure. Marriage was important to Jesus as a Jew, as a Rabbi, and as the Son of God, spreading His Word.

Having children, no, because it would have conflicted with certain things said by Jesus and God, and because the only real premise of the children is based on a bunch of 19th century forgeries, unlike the marriage aspect which is based on Jewish history, culture, tradition, and law.

Of course I wasn't there, and the thing about King David being told by God that his line would continue forever does bug me a little, but there were other lines that his descendants could have come down. I think he would have picked a different avenue than Jesus, knowing what was to come for Jesus.