Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, a run-away best seller, acclaimed to have been read by more than 60,000,000 in its first year of publication alone, has amused, if not awed the readers’ mind on the possibility of Jesus’ surviving bloodline – in partnership with, of all women, Mary Magdalene.

Magdalene, however already made into a saint, was, from a very puritanical mind, a very unlikely woman candidate for Jesus’ espouse; that there was a candidate for Jesus’ espouse at all, is, in itself, a far removed idea from the traditional Christian believers’ minds.

But with how the author Dan Brown dealt with the theme in his novel, Da Vinci Code, this remote idea became within reach – and grasped as a possibility, adding to the fact that it was very much entertaining; It appeared like a scholarly idea delivered through the mouth of the story’s character or his thoughts. Read the rest of this entry »