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Few clues to her fate. mary magdalene disappears from the gospels after jesus does, leaving church patriarchs to paint a picture of her as a woman on the wrong side of the garden of eden. >> i hesitate to say it was done in bad conscience. but it was done by men who were used to power. it was done by men who could not envision women taking a powerful role, women being that close to jesus. >> the effect of that was to eliminate mary from any kind of serious consideration as an apostle because tha...

>> i hesitate to say it was done in bad conscience. but it was done by men who were used to power. it was done by men who could not envision women taking a powerful role, women being that close to jesus. >> the effect of that was to eliminate mary from any kind of serious consideration as an apostle because that is not the kind of cloth of which apostles are cut. apostles are not repentant whores and that had the effect of marginalizing mary from that point on. >> it took the catholic church unt...

Kind of cloth out of which apostles are cut. apostles are not repentant whores and that had the effect of marginalizing mary from that point on. >> it took the catholic church until 1969 to formally undo pope gregorys sermon turning her into a prostitute, but by then the image of the sinful magdalene was set, bolstered by 15 centuries of sensuous christian art. >> there is something about mary magdalene as a repentant prostitute which allows painters and artists to keep the voluptuousness and se...

they have both been dead for nearly 2,000 years. one is venerated as the mother of jesus, the good virgin mary who said "yes" to gods request and who reigns from heaven crowned with stars. >> in a sense, you could say that christianity began the moment mary gave birth. in fact, you could say the whole modern world begins the moment mary gave birth. its the way we make dates, ount our age, our anniversaries and so on, from the moment mary gave birth. >> the other mary, called magdalene,...

in blockbuster movies and in best-selling books. and this, despite the fact that they have both been dead for nearly 2,000 years. one is venerated as the mother of jesus, the good virgin mary who said "yes" to gods request and who reigns from heaven crowned with stars. >> in a sense, you could say that christianity began the moment mary gave birth. in fact, you could say the whole modern world begins the moment mary gave birth. its the way we make dates, ount our age, our anniversaries...