I'm not sure how many people have seen this, but apparently election-related stories, the Syrian civil war, imbeciles protesting a moronic Mohammed film and terrorists killing our ambassador to Libya are not enough news. A tiny scrap of papyrus was found in Egypt that purports to say that Jesus said "my wife" at one point in the document.

Why is this news?

First, of course, Gnostic groups (which flourished in Egypt in the Second and Third Centuries AD) loved the whole motif of the married Jesus, something that Dan Brown cannibalized and reconstructed in his own sad and idiomatic way. It's not like it's a huge revelation.

Second, however, the text itself seems suspect. When I looked at the text, two things stuck out: (1) the part that they say says "my" (in Coptic, "ta") looks darker than the surrounding text, which could imply a forgery of that particular word, and (2) the text prior to that is very hard to read, and the word for "wife" is also simply the word for "woman" as well (as in many ancient languages), so it might not be "peje IC nau tahime" (literally, "said JS to-them my-wife") but instead "peje IC xxxxx hime" (or "said JS xxxxx woman"). The name of Jesus is abbreviated as a capital iota and sigma with a line above it, but I couldn't reproduce that very easily online.

Essentially, the whole thing is stupid.