Why are people getting offended by this?

[mburbank]

The theory that Jesus was married to Mary predates the Davinci Code by well over two decades. Rabbis aged thirty were almost always married, though I personlly have no opinion about jesus and mary's relationship. We discussed this theory in religion classes at my episcopal high school in the late seventies.It's an offshoot of the historical Jesus movement, and the Davinci code draws from it. Big shock you didn't know that. Bigger shock that you thought the only thing you knew about this was all there was to know. There have been multiple documentaries on this topic over the years.

The Davinci code is fictional, like the Celestine Prophecies and The Left Behind Series. People who don't bother to seperate hitsorical fact from speculation are missing much of the fun of the book.

The idea that Jesus had a bloodline which was kept hidden and guarded by a secret society is also one of the major plot threads of the graphic novel "Preacher". Perhaps this special is based on that.

The vast majority of Christians, a subject you know very little about, reside in South America and Africa, and don't concern themselves that much with American Television.

I wonder if you think Mel Gibson's upcoming movie might 'piss off' any Christians, particularly Catholics who thought vatican II was doctrinal as opposed to optional. Rest assured, I won't get pissed off by either one.

PS: Say, some pointed social commentary about the Davinci code would make a great article for a web site. It's a damn shame there's np place out there to publsih really great writing like that.