The Magdeline Line series

I am a major book junkie, and recently I've come across a series called The Magdeline Line, written by a woman who claims to be a direct descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdeline. The books are about the theory that the two were married, and tracing their bloodline in a very Dan Brown-reminiscent historical thriller format. The theory itself fascinates me, even though I'm on the fence as to whether Jesus ever even existed. Has anyone here read any of this trilogy? I know it has religious undertones, but is the story itself worth exploring?

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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on May 30, 2012 at 10:15pm

Fiction!

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Permalink Reply by Byrnes Steel on May 31, 2012 at 5:44am

Ive never come across this series but i did come across another super religious series.

when i was younger, I found these books called the left behind series(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind) which are pretty much a fictional story about the rapture when jesus takes all the people who have declared their faith or something like that. apparently theres some prayer in some protestant denominations? anywho i just thought they were entertaining cause the idea of everyone disappearing was interesting. haha but i soon saw that these books were way,way religious in their message, i was probably 11 when i read the first few, so i stopped. but they were pretty well written and engaging, if absurd.

they really do try to make kids feel bad about not being christian in these books too, so i imagine a lot of churches and protestant groups pounced on these. i dont really know if it had a biblical basis, but i dont know much about most protestant groups, they're generally not that big in my part of australia.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Holm on May 31, 2012 at 6:09am

I'm actually reading the first book in the left behind series now. Its a pretty interesting work of christian fiction, as they call it, but like you said too religious.

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Permalink Reply by John Jon on May 31, 2012 at 3:53pm

those books hahah!! i went to a protestant school and had to do a book project on non fiction and the teacher gave me this book and i told her, "i dont believe in the rapture" and she gave me the bible and i said "nope"

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Permalink Reply by Tom Holm on May 31, 2012 at 6:11am

Sounds a little qwazy to me. One book series I would like to read is called the christ clone, where scientist try to clone jesus the premise seems interesting

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Permalink Reply by Misty: Baytheist Living! on May 31, 2012 at 7:35pm

Yeah.. well I'm the direct decedent of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, so top that!!!

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Permalink Reply by IEatDinosaurMeat on June 1, 2012 at 3:23am

IMHO Misty, that is the most apt possible analogy for the situation ever! To argue Jesus existed is like arguing Santa existed in that it's a conglomerate of quotes, deeds, and ideas that come from multiple sources in such a convoluted way to tear away the myth and legend is to lose the identity of the person who is Santa... Or Jesus.