There is No Sin
When I read these words in Meggan Watterson’s, Mary Magdalene Revealed, I was mentally thrust back to when I was a child and my earliest memories of ignoring my intuition. It was at church and there was always this underlying shame around everything. I remember feeling at some point that it just didn’t line up or make sense with how I felt about God and Jesus. I always deeply loved the idea of God and Jesus, but the shaming voice of the church overrode just about everything, including what my gut felt.
That is until I realized none of it felt right and the messaging just didn’t reflect my personal values. So I hung up any association with religion and walked away. That’s not to say that I didn’t still feel a love for Jesus and God (The Good, Source, Divine, Creator, Spirit, The Universe). I decided that as much as I loved them, I wouldn’t subject myself to dogmatic religion.
Two years ago, I read the book Mary Magdalene Revealed, and everything just sort of clicked. It confirmed all the parts of “Christianity” that always felt true for me. It also explained all the parts that always felt icky and where I ignored my intuition. It provided so much of the missing context for the beautiful dance between our ego, the Divine, and our soul.
You might be wondering where this message was in the Bible. Well, for starters, please remember that the Bible was created by a group of white men with an agenda (yay, patriarchy). They were tasked with combining known Gospels in a way that would convert as many people as possible. They deemed writings heretical if it didn’t match their chosen messaging and they added their spin to things. For example, much of the shaming language seen in the latter parts of Paul’s letters wasn’t original. It was added. Since women were second class citizens, they couldn’t allow the teachings of Mary Magdalene in the Bible. What they couldn’t disappear by deeming it heretical (and tried having destroyed), they started the centuries long smear campaign that MM was a prostitute to undermine the importance of her teachings.
So to summarize: Mary Magdalene wasn’t a prostitute, but an apostle (and Jesus’ lover). There’s no such thing as sin. Love really is love. The highest expression of a person as their most authentic self (including, but not limited to, gender) is a direct reflection of their soul expression, and, by extension, God/Divine. The essence of other religions is compassion for self and others, which means everyone is saying the same thing in a different way. Hell is a frame of mind or an attachment to ego/suffering; not a place. Here’s to the troublemakers. Women deserve the right to bodily autonomy and safe abortions. And dogmatic religion can fuck off for the centuries long use of manipulative toxic shaming as a means of control (aka sustained emotional abuse). (Oh yeah, Jesus didn’t intend for a church to be created to begin with.)
