Posted: 10.05.06 11:20. Post subject: помни предков :

From: cliff doerksen [mailto:cliff.doerksen@gmail.com]

I'm a Chicago film critic bracing for the arrival of The Da Vinci Code
in theaters later this month. As you may or may not know, a central
conceit of the novel is that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and
had children, and that Mary relocated to Gaul/France post-crucifixion.
The novel treats this notion in demographically naive terms, as if it
meant that a narrow and constricted lineage would proceed from the
issue of Mary and Jesus, such that a few living French people could
today easily and incontestably be identified as His heirs and
heiresses apparent.

My own impression is that pretty much everyone alive today have equal
claim to being a direct descendant of Jesus, assuming his bloodline
survives. Have I got that right?

Thanks for any light you can throw on the matter,

Cliff Doerksen