tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11393537.post113940397139544916..comments2023-08-10T15:19:54.683+05:30Comments on Plan 8 from Doubter Space: The Saintly SinnerMujibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00032882347144402258noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11393537.post-1139468112866900432006-02-09T12:25:00.000+05:302006-02-09T12:25:00.000+05:30Indeed. The piece does mention that.As Warner show...Indeed. The piece does mention that.<BR/><BR/><I>As Warner shows, many of the details of the Nativity so familiar to us from paintings and hymns and school pageants—“the hay and the snow and the smell of animals’ warm bodies”—are not in the New Testament. People made them up; they wanted a better story. Likewise, they made up a better Mary Magdalene.</I><BR/><BR/>[...]<BR/><BR/><I>The academic feminists have very little patience with the Jesus-married-the-Magdalene plot. As Schaberg sees it, these stories are not about the Magdalene. They are about Jesus; they are an effort to make him a “real man,” and not just for humanistic, Christ-is-your-friend reasons. (In the sixties, there were some naughty suggestions that maybe Jesus was gay.)</I>Mujibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032882347144402258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11393537.post-1139467604419724652006-02-09T12:16:00.000+05:302006-02-09T12:16:00.000+05:30No one loves Jesus bashing more than I and I admit...No one loves Jesus bashing more than I and I admit I've repeated these same tales as mythology. But that's all they are. Mary M isn't described explicityly as a prostitute in the Bible. It's a debatable tradition. And the "manger" may have been a very regular and proper inn of the day where the lower floor was where the animals were.<BR/><BR/>Of course, Jesus being wife-less and surrounded by male "friends" into His thirties does suggest something else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com