judas.....

ok, so sunday school was small this morning....mostly due to the spring break...and those who were there were either completely unaware of the newly translated gospel of judas iscariot....or were unwilling to embrace the notion of a good judas.....in fact......one classmate discounted the document as fake, as judas is reported to have committed suicide afterwards, and could not have written it.......i find this ironic.....that the more information becomes available, the more some cling to what they have always believed to be so....even if events were spun to make them fit into a theologically correct framework......and while i am not accusing matthew, mark, luke and john of being spin doctors.....it is clear that along the line some folks have been vilified to suit the times.....mary magdelene is a good example of the smear campaign carried out in the 3rd century......so why cannot judas have also been portrayed in bad light to suit somebody's agenda.....as for me.....i prefer to believe that jesus was a married man......and that he probably did give himself as sacrifice to prove a point......ah well......enough for one sunday.......