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CNN CNN Presents December 26, 2013 02:26:00

We need to go forward into a new, brighter future, for you and for the male disciples. and then, she disappears from the scene, only to reappear centuries later as a prostitute, the woman with the alabaster jar filled with precious ointment for washing jesus feet. how did this happen? there is a story about a woman who is a member of the oldest profession in the gospel of luke, just before the first account of mary of magdala. and gregory the great, at the end of the sixth century, read that story, and read about mary, and conflated the two and drew the conclusion that mary herself was a prostitute. gregory the great just happened to be pope. and when he preached this revised version of mary magdalene in the year 591, his sermon turned her into a fallen woman for the next 1,400 years. ....

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CNN CNN Presents December 26, 2013 02:14:00

Life, then, for jesus. the story of that birth is found only in two gospels, luke and matthew. and while they don t agree on all the details, they do agree that this event was miraculous a child born to a virgin. this is a tradition in antiquity, in general. if you re important, you had a special birth. alexander the great had a virgin birth. his mother was impregnated by a god. it s what you do, okay? and so, certainly, that emphasis on jesus special birth, the wise men, the angels, all of it, you know, have to do with showing that this is somebody you can expect great things of. and, of course, precisely, that s what happens. believers in jesus took that from the prophecy they found in isaiah, where they read the saying, behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and call his name jesus. ....

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CNN CNN Presents December 26, 2013 02:50:00

And in my mind that simply settles the issue right there. so what is behind the enduring fascination of a romance between the savior and the siren? in a jesus-haunted culture, everybody wants an approachable jesus. and one of the things that underlines things is the humanizing of jesus. remember the song what if god was one of us there is this motif in our culture of wanting to humanize god or make him more like us. bring him down to our level. the debates are not likely to end because the underlying issues, authority in the church, the role of women, continue to percolate. and so does the search for the real meaning of the two marys. give us mary. ....

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CNN CNN Presents December 26, 2013 02:51:00

Give us mary. hierarchy of the church. she belongs to all of us. let us have mary again. mary magdalene. mary the mother of jesus. let them be a part of owe theology. let them be a part of our lives. it s donut friday at the office. and i m low man on the totem pole. so every friday morning they send me out to get the goods. but what they don t know is that i m using my citi thankyou card at the coffee shop, so i get 2 times the points. and those points add up fast. so, sure, make me the grunt. cause i ll be using those points to help me get to a beach in miami. and allllllll the big shots will be stuck here at the cube farm. ....

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CNN CNN Presents December 26, 2013 02:15:00

And some of them must have read that and said, aha! that s what it was. his birth was a miracle. whatever the truth of the bethlehem story, the star of the tale was jesus, not mary, whom the gospels mention just 13 times and not always by name. she s in there by virtue of her relationship to jesus, both as his mother and also, as luke portrays her, as a disciple of jesus. but the gospel writers were not interested that much in her story. so early christians and later scholars have had to fill in the blanks. the most popular tradition says she died at this church on mount zion, overlooking the hill where her son was crucified. and that she was taken to be buried in a tomb near where her son was betrayed, on the mount of olives. and within a few centuries, mary of nazareth would make a ....

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