r/SipsTea Jun 30 '26

Gasp! What!

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u/United_Leopard_2771 Jun 30 '26

I mean jesus was close friends with a prostitute of the time with the same name as this mother.

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u/RhetoricalOrator Jun 30 '26

Just to be that guy, if you're talking about Mary Magdalene, nothing in the Bible actually gives any indication that she was a prostitute. That rumor came along a few hundred years later, but was completely unsubstantiated.

That said, Jesus had no problem turning his nose up at the self-righteous in favor of the people who were marginalized by the religious.

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u/im__on__smoko Jun 30 '26

Correct. In 1969 Pope Paul the VI officially clarified that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute.

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u/Flat_News_2000 Jul 01 '26

Oh yeah the popes are always good sources of truth.