[Steve_Seattle]

"Gee, and I thought the liberals believed he was gay. This is so confusing."

Yes, he was gay, also married to Mary Magdalene, travelled to India, Tibet, Kashmir, and Glastonbury, was educated by the Essenes, was a Buddhist, never existed at all, etc. Every unorthodox idea about Jesus, no matter how silly or improbable, no matter how much it contradicts other silly theories, will be taken with the utmost seriousness by the mainstream media.

[freekitty]

I am surprised. No one has traced their roots to Jesus?

[Robe]

Addressed in a much more scholarly fashion here.....this was pub. at least 25 years ago..Good Book !! Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, Richard Leigh

[CobaltBlue]

I read the book this weekend. It really is a page turner, kept me up very late Friday and Saturday night.

One thing it's important to note - the author doesn't present the theories about Jesus and Mary Magdalene as if they are the actual truth, but as if they are theories of the characters in the book. He doesn't discount them, either.

One thing I learned which I thought was very interesting. Take a look at the recently restored "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci. The figure on His right clearly is a woman, and if you take her out of the count, there are only 11 disciples in the painting. Then in the group of disciples on your left of the painting, Jesus's right, floating in the middle is a disembodied hand holding a knife. Weird.
http://artchive.floridaimaging.com/l/leonardo/lastsupp.jpg

[R. Scott]

He might have been married. Remember that the Bible as we know it was canonized (5th and 6th Century) by men who had little respect for women. They had already established that women were to have no place of importance in the Church and St. Paul – who never met The Christ and injected much of his own philosophy into the early Christian Church – went as far as to forbid priestly marriage. St. Paul also espoused the idea that any contact between the sexes was basically a bad idea:

But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God. But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of this world how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you, but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord without impediment. (I Cor., vii, 7-8 and 32-35.)

It’s very possible that when the Christian Bible was finally canonized all references to the Christ being married would have been expunged.

[BlueNgold]

For better research and information on this centuries old story read "Holy Blood Holy Grail" - also replete with plenty of cool conspiracy theories about the Knights Templar, and much better detail on the exploits of the Priurre De Sion.

[tracer]

I once read of a report that historians have unearthed two decades worth of claims records from a life insurance company that did business undere the name Carpenters' Mutual that operated some 2,000 years ago.

The researchers were quite excited to find a death benefit claim form filed on a Friday by two women named Mary and a man named Joseph and later hurriedly rescinded before noon on the following Monday.

Just might be a clue here. I wonder if this curious finding will be discussed on the CBS special in question...

[tracer]

Hey, talk about marrying "a nice Jewish boy".....

[foghornleghorn]

Gee, I'm thinking of doing a movie based on Mohammed's proclivity for young girls, and unusual erotic positions. Think I will encounter any heat?

[F.J. Mitchell]

"A"thiests "B"ashing "C"hrist.

[F.J. Mitchell]

The problem with Jesus being a married man, is that it makes the Bible a lie. But isn't the destruction of Christians and Christianity, what these rewrites of history all about?

Blatently obvious.

[Trampled by Lambs]

I am not a religious man and you can make of that what you will but I've been reading here on FR about this and have to admit my ignorance.

Why is the possibility or the insinuation that Christ was married so offensive to christians?

This is not troll bait. I am just curious. I have read the bible but its been.. oh, 30 years or so.

Can anyone answer me without getting upset or offended?

[WhiteGuy]

Was Jesus Christ A Married Man?

God only knows..................

It's OK either way.

[Destructor]

Mrs. Christ: "Hi, honey! How was your day?"

JC:"Same old. Heal the crippled, cast out demons, raise the dead. Gosh I'm beat!"

Mrs. Christ: "Well, you just sit down here and put your feet up, and relax. I'm making your favorite Matsa ball soup for dinner."

JC: "Oh, gee honey that's sweet, but I was going over to the Inn with the apostles to...

Mrs. Christ: "Again!?! We never spend time together, and you never take me out any more! My mother was right-- I should have married Irving Schmeckle the accountant's son. All day long I work, and I slave over a hot open fire..."

[Tribune7]

An advanced civilation will certainly base its understanding of history on a work of fiction with a distinct agenda </sarcasm>