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Having a descendant won't change a thing.

posted 7 years ago by ionme2298
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Having magdalene's DNA would only prove that the Grail is a descendant of magdalene.
(only in the unlikely event that you could get a good sample, given the fact that normally the time it takes for half of it to decay is about 521 years)

Of course nobody ever prohibited her having offspring
(or brothers or cousins at this point, because, you know, it gets tricky when you need to find connections of two people living 2000 years apart).

Anyway the church already denies her intimate relationships with jesus.
Whoever used to think that their demi-god was screwing a lady will probably have toyed with his human nature already.
Whoever never bought that, will keep on not buying it

So, in the end, having a living descendant won't make any *beep* difference

[–] puirt-a-beul 7 years ago

Even if the DNA were viable enough to be tested, how could it ever be established that it belonged to *the* Mary Magdalene? There's no point of reference.

Anyway the church already denies her intimate relationships with Jesus.

Of course it has. Any organisation will protect its vested interests, especially one with as much to lose as the religion mill. It doesn't matter whether its tenets are true or not.

Myself, I find it an intriguing idea this story is based on, even though it makes no difference to what we think of as Real Life.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.