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Article on Judas Iscariot in The New Yorker online

Socrates II — 8/7/2009 8:04:20 PM (archived)

Judas: An all-around bad guy and traitor or the disciple who took one for the team?

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/08/03/090803crat_atlarge_acocella

We also find out why the Gnostics were not the final word in Christianity. It had something to
do in no small part with having a less than popular message.

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Article on Judas Iscariot in The New Yorker online - Socrates II - 8/7/2009 8:04:20 PM
- I do not believe anything I read about Jesus...or his disciples - Jody - 8/8/2009 4:00:18 AM
  - I wasn't there. - ER - 8/8/2009 12:04:11 PM
    - Neither was I - mip - 8/8/2009 7:57:35 PM
      - There are other alternatives. - Eri - 8/9/2009 2:29:48 AM
        
        How tough would it have been for someone just a little more advanced... - Socrates II - 8/10/2009 2:57:59 AM
      - Chapter and verse - ER - 8/8/2009 9:21:27 PM
        
        Amen to all that. (n/t) - Eri - 8/9/2009 2:32:10 AM
- A lot of speculation based on very little fact. - ER - 8/8/2009 1:12:39 AM
  - James Madison. - Eri - 8/8/2009 4:34:00 AM
    - Stonewall Jackson. - ER - 8/8/2009 11:44:01 AM
      - Friendly Fire - Eri - 8/8/2009 5:37:06 PM
        
        re: Friendly Fire - ER - 8/8/2009 9:33:13 PM
        
        Or just wanted to make sure he was dead. - Eri - 8/9/2009 2:33:57 AM
        
        Or maybe... - Socrates II - 8/10/2009 2:31:03 AM
        
        Yeah, germ theory was still a few decades away. - Lee - 8/10/2009 3:45:15 AM

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