RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
February 27, 2023 at 4:41 am
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2023 at 4:42 am by Fake Messiah.)
(February 25, 2023 at 1:39 am)Paleophyte Wrote: Judas is necessary to the narrative because otherwise it reads "And then Roman soldiers nabbed him and tacked him up." Clearly that was a major problem for the early Roman church, so they concocted some convenient excuses like Judas and the trial at the Sanhedrin to insulate themselves from what their own troops and politicians had done. Or what they had done according to the early Christian mythos. They make no sense whatsoever once you think about them but that's never been the strong point of the faithful. Blaming the Jews was easy and that little blood libel has cost a lot of lives down through the ages.
Yeah, that is the most interesting if not the most obvious answer. Romans whitewashed mythos and blamed the Jews, especially if you consider that modern translations give his name as “Judas,” in actuality, his name in all NT documents is Judah (Ioudas); basically, “Jew.”
Although it doesn't talk about Judas as a character and I guess from the point of theology/ Christianity, but I guess it is useless because it is all made up. Especially when we see that Christians and other "experts" have nothing to say about this topic, but blabber about something else.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"