DA VINCI SILLINESS

During the first century a group of heretics called Gnostics appeared on the scene. Their name comes from their claim "to know" (gnosis), i.e., they had the inside scoop and you don't. The apostle John particular attacked this nonsense. His message: they don't know as much as they think they do. Those who have accepted Jesus Christ through the proclamation of the gospel message are really the ones who "know".(1 John 2:21) The New York Times gives us an overview of a modern day gnostic notion, that Jesus was married and somehow Da Vinci is involved. Yes, it's just as silly as it sounds. ABC has a new "edgy" documentary (it airs tonight) exploring the idea based on the bestselling thriller The Da Vinci Code:

Though set mostly in modern Europe, Mr. Brown's thriller centers on Leonardo da Vinci's role in maintaining a secret from biblical times. In pursuing what it calls the "claims" of Mr. Brown's fiction, the ABC special, which the group on the 22nd floor had seen before the meeting, bares Leonardo's so-called secret: Mary Magdalene, far from being a prostitute, was the rightful wife of Jesus; Mary and Jesus had a child and heirs; and finally, the heirs, whose existence threatened church dogma, were protected by a clandestine priory that counted Leonardo among its members.

It sounds like something you'd see on a tabloid cover in the grocery checkout. And that's about how much validity it has. If you want the inside scoop, I'd recommend reading a gospel tonight instead of wasting your time on ABC's "documentary".