You guys,,,,,
http://newlife.id.au/equality-and-gende ... magdalene/
http://www.thenazareneway.com/mary_magdalene.htm
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread835452/pg1
"[11] There is nothing in the Bible which indicates that Jesus and Mary were married, or had children together. Considering Jesus’ ministry, including his redemptive death and return to the Father forty days later, I think it is unlikely that he would have chosen to marry and have a family."
Paul and others, and the translators of the Bible, all worked to denigrate Mary as a leader. When the Catholic Church admitted this in 1969 it became necessary to reevaluate.
"On the 14 September 591 Pope Gregory the Great delivered a homily on the Gospel of Luke in which he argued that the sinful woman, who while dining at Simon’s house washes Jesus’s feet with her tears, was in fact Mary Magdalene. With this commentary, Pope Gregory changed the perception of Mary and she was relegated from most ‘dearly beloved’ of all Jesus’s disciplines to the station of a common whore."
"In 1896, a papyrus was discovered bearing the title the Gospel of Mary, it elicted little attention, until 50 years later when the Nag Hammadi, or Gnostic Gospels were discovered and it was then translated. It showed quite clearly, as alluded to in the accepted texts of the New Testament, that Mary was at least the equal of the other Apostles, if not the one who best understood their master’s teachings. With the Pistis Sophia, we gain even further insight into the dynamics of the relationship between the disciples and Jesus, and find that Mary is most dominant in the questioning of Christ, and he bestows her responses with the highest of praise."
"In a social context, Gregory as a Pope returned the papacy, and the Roman Church, to patriarchy. The intrusion of the Germanic peoples, whose lore greatly {emphasized} the feminine, {in} upon Roman culture did not sit well with Gregory, and he set about suppressing heretical beliefs in the wider church, most particularly in Africa, and amongst the Anglo-Saxons. The first three centuries of Christianity had in many ways, marked a spiritual and intellectual emancipation of women, that over the course of the middle-ages would, quite ruthlessly be suppressed. The early female teachers of Christianity, like Mary, Junia, Priscilla, and Thecla, were at first utilised as a conversion tool, as was the Virgin Mary, to supplant to Mother of All, but increasingly, from Gregory’s papacy, women were portrayed as the originators of sin, and imperfect because of the female form. God after all made man in his own image, and increasingly man was seen as the ‘head of woman’, and woman incapable of rational thought. In such a social landscape, how could the image of Mary Magdelene as most worthy of Jesus’s attention be allowed to pervade? "
You have misread me. What I objected to was Xplaya and Basra calling her a whore. Even the Catholic Church has acknowledged the slander.
Gurey
