# Mrs O'Nazereth

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-onazereth/355861>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 8, 2006, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-onazereth/355861 "2006-05-08T07:59:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-onazereth/355861/21 "2006-05-09T18:05:36Z")

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> [@Duck Duck Goose](#):
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> There isn’t one, as such. It’s in _The DaVinci Code_, that’s the only place AFAIK anybody’s ever said it.

Growing up, I heard this all the time from my fellow Mormons. It was basically the same thing: social custom at the time meant that it would have been commented on if Jesus had not been married. Nobody ever gave a cite, though.

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-onazereth/355861/22 "2006-05-09T19:10:33Z")

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> [@chorpler](#):
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> Growing up, I heard this all the time from my fellow Mormons. It was basically the same thing: social custom at the time meant that it would have been commented on if Jesus had not been married. Nobody ever gave a cite, though.

I wrote a term paper for a religion class at BYU titled “Was Jesus of Nazareth Married?” I wrote another on another Mormon oddity: the literal and divine Sonship of Christ; i.e. did God the Father come down and have sex with Mary?

Crazy, crazy stuff.

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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-onazereth/355861/23 "2006-05-09T19:22:44Z")

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I’m starting to wonder whether a general social custom would apply to a “_minister_.”

If If Jesus was accepted as a “_man-of-God_” would it be acceptable to remain unmarried?

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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-onazereth/355861/24 "2006-05-09T19:41:11Z")

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> [@SiXSwordS](#):
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> I’m starting to wonder whether a general social custom would apply to a “_minister_.”
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> If If Jesus was accepted as a “_man-of-God_” would it be acceptable to remain unmarried?

It’s pretty much mandatory for a rabbi.

However, for an itinerant prophet (and Judaism does not recognize prophets nowadays), the situation is a bit more complicated.

Judaism does _not_ accept the idea that “Sex is dirty.” (Neither, for that matter, does small-o orthodox Christianity.) However, pretty much any religion can accept the notion, at least in theory, “What I have to do with my life leaves no room for marriage.”

(By the way, one of the reasons that “The DaVinci Code” is utter garbage is that the Cathars _did_ believe that sex is dirty. They would be the _last_ people to believe that Jesus had a child.)

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