Last night there were some very good shows on the History Channel about The Da Vinci Code, the Knights Templar, Priori of Sion, and the Catholic / Christian faith. Most of the stuff was common sense. While under its aegis, Opus Dei operates independently from the rest of the Catholic Church, but they generally aren't involved in conspiracy theories and subversive plots, etc. But something really struck me.
The big deal in The Da Vinci Code, a work of fiction that takes place in the modern world, is the Search for the Holy Grail, Sangraal. By leaps and bounds that you can only take in the world of Faerie, San Graal becomes Sang Raal and the Holy Cup of Jesus becomes a Royal Lineage, the only real cup that can hold the Divine Blood. Reaction to the book was fever-pitch. The books heavy emphasis of the Divine Feminine really scared the patriarchal veins of Christendom, but a deeper chord got struck.
The book held that Jesus and Mary Magdalene (the infamous adulteress) got married and had a daughter, Sarah.
*cue the freaking out*
"Whoa, Jesus never got married! He didn't have children!"
All I wanna ask is, why is that such a big deal, whether he got married or not?
Jesus is fully human, right? If he had not married, surely the Gospel writers would have commented on that pretty huge part of his life. But they are mum, one way or the other, so how do we know?