Virgin Birth

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I have been reading the Da Vinci Code again. It suggests that before he died (in his early thirties) Jesus of Nazareth may have sired at least one child.

This concept seems to badly upset some Christians. To me it just makes good sense. Jesus was a carpenter. Two thousand years ago this required heavy manual labor, so one can be certain that this guy was not some little wimp. He was in great physical condition from all that manual labor, and he was also very charismatic.

If he got to be more than 30 years old without having had sex with women many times, I would rate him as some kind of pervert. Of course Jesus had girl friends! And he probably had several children. Maybe many children.

Celsus (Greek: Κέλσος) was a 2nd century Greek philosopher. Not long after Matthew, Mark and the others wrote their accounts of the Tales of Jesus, Celsus made a charge of illegitimacy against Jesus.
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He wrote, “It was Jesus himself who fabricated the story that he had been born of a virgin. In fact, however, his mother was a poor country woman who earned her money by spinning. She had been driven out by her carpenter husband when she was convicted of adultery with a soldier named Panthera. She then wandered about and secretly gave birth to Jesus. Later, because he was poor, Jesus hired himself out in Egypt where he became adept in magical powers. Puffed up by these, he claimed for himself the title of God.”

Carrying this idea forward, the mother of Jesus had a healthy sex drive. Enough the she got caught in adultery. So one would reasonably expect that her child Jesus had a strong sex drive as well.

That is one perspective, and Celsus was more than 1,500 years closer in time to Jesus than we are.

Catholic priests are not allowed to have sex with women. And because of this they have gradually turned into a group of abnormal sexual perverts. Over time more and more men with really strange ideas about sex have gravitated to the profession; and increasingly fewer normal men have decided to become priests. The Catholic church has almost been bankrupted by all the financial settlements they have had to pay because of the sick child molestation and perversion of so many priests. And the church hierarchy from Bishops to the Pope in Rome let them get away with it for many years.

In my view it is totally irrelevant if Jesus had kids or not. By now the gene pool would be so watered down that it would be completely meaningless.
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I have been to the Louvre in Paris many times. And Roslyn Chapel in Scotland twice. And the St. Sulpice church, and the Temple church in London. What a lot of fun to see them all again!
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