#MeToo, 'Mary Magdalene' focus on women's stories in Bible as Easter nears

[MaryMagdaline]

47. I like all the gospels but my favorite is Matthew

I’m a mathesian Christian (Sermon on the Mount is my religion)(that’s why I’m a Democrat) but I don’t believe divinity of Christ so that disqualified me as a real Christian. I consider the gospel of Mary and gospel of Thomas as on par with the others. None is an eyewitness account. None probably written by an actual apostle. One gospel written by one apostle’s followers has no more weight than another gospel written by another apostle’s followers. Matthew, though, gets to the meat of it. I would not pay attention to any of it without the Sermon on the Mount.

My avatar is half serious, half whimsical. In straitening out my password and log in information (which kept me off DU for years because I could not remember or fix my password) I tried using some version of my own name which popped up as close to Mary Magdalene but with misspellings. I kept it and won’t risk changing it again.

I am loyal to Mary Magdalene because of the insult by the church against her position as an apostle but my feminism doesn’t make me a devotee. I’m a mathesian, not a gnostic, not into mysticism. My Christian beliefs are those of Marcus Borg ... Jesus never said he was god.

You asked for none of the above but I’m agnostic not gnostic when it comes to Mary. The bottom line ... SOME of her followers thought she was the one with the true vision. Similar to John’s followers. I’m not with John. Too Greek, too mystical.