#davinci code is in fact extremely overrated

[ageofgeek]

Ian McKellan’s character’s motivations in the DaVinci Code were always so ridiculous to me, bc like, okay buddy, you wanna destroy the Vatican and the Catholic Church, sure. And the way you wanna do that is by… revealing that Jesus had a child with Mary Magdalene.

Well, first of all, this would certainly contradict the Church’s teachings, but would it disprove that Jesus was the son of God? …not really??? Like, the Church has always held that Jesus was both human and divine. That’s like, the whole point. Of Catholicism. The existence of a bloodline would certainly be shocking and would force a reckoning with many church teachings, but it wouldn’t disprove the existence of God or fundamentally change the Church’s view of Jesus’s divinity. If anything, it would give more support to the already widely accepted view that Jesus was a real historical person.

Second of all, the plan is so dumb, lol. Just from a practical perspective. Dude is relying on maps, codes, and secrets that were all made hundreds if not thousands of years after Jesus’s death. Even if he found the tomb of Mary Magdalene and then did a DNA test, and matched it to the Grail family, that would not prove (1) that the corpse they found was Mary Magdalene; or (2) that even if it was, that the father of her bloodline was Jesus. Like, some traditions hold that Mary was a sex worker; others hold that she was married and had children with an unnamed husband. Why does the father of her hypothetical bloodline have to be Jesus? AND AGAIN, even if it was, see point 1 above, that doesn’t prove shit.

Ok, sorry, i caught the end of this movie on tv and needed to talk about it