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Originally posted by christhecynic:
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Anyone read "Jesus and the Lost Goddess" or any of those? They make me sad. They're really good, but they make me sad...

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I think it would have been a better religion if two things happened:
1 They stuck to what it said in the books, not what symbols they could steal from pagans or what ideologies they could make up on the side.
2 They preserved all of the books, not just the ones they liked, and taught their flocks to think for themselves and make up their own minds on which books should be listened to.

That's the Magdaline story of course, call her a protitute for no apparent reason, have the majority believe it for the next few hundred years. The only reason it is possible is that people care more about what they are told the bible says than what it actually says.

Ok, I'd like to close the rant on my thoughts about Mary Magdaline because I brought her up.

So I figure could they have been married, sure why not, but I really don't care.

Personally I'm more interested in her importance than her marital status, The DaVinci Code and other such works imply that the only important part of her was her womb, I doubt that.

She gets mentioned more than several of The Twelve combined, as near as we can tell she was an important figure in early christianity, she was the first to see and the first person Jesus came to and the first person who believed in the resurrection. Obviously she's important, I want to know why.

I suppose it could be that Jesus was having sex with her, but I don't think you get the status of importance in a religious movement if the only thing of value you do is screw.
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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
Its a Pirate! Are you scary today? Where's the rum?

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Yes, and have always loved your name, Magdalena! Both when you were Magdalene and now.
Side note: My actual name has some of the coolest symbolism ever. My parents chose Rose because (so they say) the rose is the symbol of the coming Buddha. I thought that was fantastic. Then I found out it's also the symbol of the Divine Feminine, the lost Goddess, and the Magdalene! I have the shiniest name ever!
Sorry, end of side note. Ima dance now.

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