Jesus had two kids, one wife, sedan, mortgage and a receding hairline.

Over the weekend, I had two discussions on conspiracies, and things of that nature. One, the first one, was just a quick negating of them, by me, and another person, seemingly, looking at my naivety, because I lack experience. I, of course, believe I lack evidence, and the arguments lack reason, but that might be my next post. Along those lines, which are unconnected (parallels are not connections), we have the same type of reasoning in the latest 'breakthrough discovery' about Jesus. He was married, and had two kids. Granted, this was not how I expected Jesus to be, but there are parallels that 'prove' that I'm wrong. Whilst I needed connections, 'scholars' need similarities (please note, the claims are not by scholars! I respect scholarship, not pseudo-scholars.) Candida Moss, as usual, writes a clever review of the 'theory' behind it, and I will post a part of her response, "Jesus Christ, Baby Daddy?". The title alone attracted me to the article, and Moss' name makes it worth anyone's time.
Here's a bit:
"...The manuscript is attributed to the Christian writer Zacharias Rhetor and, according to Jacobovici and Wilson, it preserves the untold love story between Jesus and Mary and the shocking revelation that they had two children.

Not mentioned: whether Jesus took out the trash or Mary Magdalene stopped making an effort after the second kid was born and Jesus started spending all his time with his guy friends.

We, of course, hear nothing about Jesus’s offspring in the Bible. There’s a line of rice farmers in Japan who claim to be direct descendants of Jesus (irony alert: they’re Buddhists). And there are at least 40 million copies of a book claiming that Jesus’s great-to-the-power-of-n-granddaughter is a cryptographer in Paris. But other than that, we know nothing about this line of potential demigods. Perhaps they turned out to be deadbeats. It’s a tough act to follow, and not everyone wants to go into the family business. Maybe Grandpa spoiled them. Maybe Jesus—who refuses to acknowledge his mother and brothers as real family in Mark 3—wasn’t going to take responsibility without a DNA test and Maury Povich-style reveal. We can only assume that they’re great at feeding the masses at Thanksgiving and can ice-skate outside year ’round, even in California.

There’s just one small problem with the Jacobovici-Wilson theory. Jesus and Mary are nowhere mentioned in the manuscript. It’s one version of a well-known ancient novel called Joseph and Aseneth, which discusses the life and times of the biblical patriarch Joseph (of technicolor-dreamcoat fame) and his relationship with Aseneth, the Egyptian woman he marries in Genesis 41:45.

Not to be a killjoy fact-checker, but this does seem like an important detail to get right. ...."

Read the rest here!