Shocking Developments For Christians!!

The National Geographic Society has confirmed as authentic what they are calling the only known surviving copy of the Gospel - of Judas Iscariot.



You read that right.



Judas. Worst traitor in history, betrayer of the Son of God, blah, blah - except that according to HIS gospel, there was something going on that the other Apostles simply didn't know about - namely that Judas was acting on instructions from Jesus himself when he went to the Romans.



Think that'll cause a bit of a shakeup?



Honestly, I don't.



Why?



Because I think the leaders of the Christian church will do what they did with the Gospel of Mary, the rest of the Gnostic Gospels, and the books of the Apocrypha - decide they're politically inconvenient, and simply ignore them. At best they might issue a statement saying they weren't divinely inspired, which will work flawlessly.



It will work, because the people who think this is all a load of hooey will ignore them whatever they say, and those who listen to them will believe whatever they're told. For a fun challenge of this, take a copy of the Apocrypha, and challenge any "Christian" with it. Watch the antics they go through to try to "prove" that the information therein is somehow false, simply because the Catholic church voted to have it removed from the Bible. I even had one genius once try to explain that the Catholics were divinely inspired when they picked which books to include, so that made it ok.



Heh.

You guys might enjoy reading the articles about it - NG has quite a bit of info about how they verified it, restored and preserved it, and how it was found in the first place.