Dan Brown was right!!!

Anyone else heard about this little bitty scrap of papyrus that is rocking the world at the moment?  Seems - are you ready - Jesus had a wife!  And she was one of his disciples!  None other than Mary Magdelene, purported by previous chroniclers to be of the sleaziest profession, a prostitute!  Now, it occurs to me that the only way I know anything is from what I am told.  The Catholics seem to know (not think but KNOW) that Jesus was celibate, a true goody-two-shoes of a man-god, who glowed in the dark and regularly levitated.  I think that is not true, and have thought that for a while, ever since I got sober and became capable of independent thought.  And damned if I wasn't right!  I now think that there is, in the Vatican archives, scads of such truth that is being suppressed to the benefit of the Church.  After all, the Catholics (and a lot of other so-called Christian dogmas) have a lock on their parishioners (and their pocketbooks).  Without benefit of the sacraments, these poor folks will be toasted extra-crispy in the afterworld.  Or, even worse, float around in Limbo nothingness.  Forever.  Ah, but open your wallet every Sunday, and every Holy Day of Obligation, and there are scads of those, and voila!  Grace will rain on you and you get to be a goody-two-shoes, too!  Except goody-two-shoesdom is BORING.  I would rather be a practicing human being, one who occasionally gets caught in the Mixmaster of my own mind and ego, and screw up.  Luckily, I usually recognize that moment of error, and have some tools to clean up my messes.  And work toward not doing it again.  Of course, I think it is easier to be a Catholic if you are of the male (heterosexual) persuasion to begin with.  And, since I am violently female, I am discounted by the Church, banned from channeling Jesus directly, relegated to always be kind of dirty around the edges.  Funny how THAT is up at the moment, too.  Pious (male) Republicans blatantly putting half the human race beneath the other.  That has been going on for 3,000 freaking years!  And I cannot blame just the male half of the race for that.  A lot of women buy their wholesale disdain.  Really, folks.  Let's all just get real, and call a spade a spade.  What incites hatred and suppression in men?  Why, FEAR, of course.  These great big guys are terrified of women, as if we are going to sap them of their power.  Really, like they have any, anyway.  Men only have the power we have given to them.  Turn my back and walk away, and they are just bags of hot air, after all.  Nice that they now have such an apt spokesperson running for President, isn't it.