For professional reasons, or maybe just blogging reasons, she had to go see The Da Vinci Code. I liked #7 and #8 of her enumerated impressions:
7) Jesus was "merely" mortal, but we all need to go kneel at Mary Magdalene’s tomb. Because she’s the wife of Jesus. Who was merely mortal. And she was bearing his baby. So we should go kneel at her tomb. Because she was married to Jesus. Who was merely mortal. But…
8) WHERE IS MARY MAGDALENE’S TOMB? WE’VE GOT TO RACE AROUND EUROPE, KILL PEOPLE, RACK OUR BRAINS TO FIGURE OUT STUPID PUZZLES, STAND AROUND IN RESTROOMS AND VILLAS TALKING FOR HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS ABOUT WHERE IN THE WORLD MARY MAGDALENE’S RELICS ARE. WHY HAS THE CHURCH HIDDEN THEM? WHY DON’T THEY WANT US TO REVERENCE HER? WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE SUPER-SECRET SPOT WHERE PILGRIMS CAN FLOCK TO HONOR HER?
Yes — this is one of the things that I found so laughable about DVC (yes, I have read it, and no, I have much better things to do with my time & money than seeing the movie) — this idea that the Church suppressed/demonized Mary Magdalene. She’s a saint, people. I have personally worshipped in a cathedral named after Mary Magdalene. Doesn’t anyone fact-check anything anymore?
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