Let There Be Wife, Jesus’s Wife

Those who maintain that Jesus was most probably gay (by the world’s gay community) for not getting married at the age of 30 (uncommon in his time) must now be put to rest with the discovery of an ancient piece of papyrus; a tiny portion of something bigger like a gospel where Jesus referred to his wife but hey; this is something serious really mind-boggling serious because this also proves that Muslims are right…Jesus is no God; he was a prophet. Remember that in another gospel, Jesus was witnessed by his disciples kissing Mary Magdalene on the mouth :-) Dan Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code,” must be very pleased with this new vindication. 

Let There Be Wife, Jesus’s Wife - Newsweek and The Daily Beast:

Let There Be Wife, Jesus’s Wife

Sep 24, 2012 1:00 AM EDT

Why would imagining a married Jesus be good for women?

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When Karen King, a historian of early Christianity at Harvard University, unveiled a shred of papyrus in which Jesus refers to his “wife” and calls her a “disciple,” religious scholars arguing for a more humanized view of Jesus and a greater role for women in the church received encouragement.

But like other religious notions, the idea of a married Jesus does not need conclusive proof to cast a powerful spell. The Vatican proved that with its attack on Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code, which portrayed Jesus as married to Magdalene. Just imagining him having sex, apparently, can threaten the entrenched association of sacredness with sexlessness.

“It’s easier for Jesus not to have been married; it’s easier for him to not have wet dreams,” said Yale Divinity School professor Emilie Townes. “That way, we don’t have to encounter things that challenge our separation of our bodies from our souls.” Townes said a savior with sexual needs would confront the “skewed” equation of perfection with male celibacy, to which women are inevitably seen as a threat.

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