[AGL] The gospel according to Mark, Morford that is...

[Frances Morey]

Even if Christ did it, I don't care. I still like being a Christian (as opposed to talibanista-Muslim).
  Frances
   
  Re: Mark Morford: The Bible's All Wrong, Again

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SFGate.com - Friday, April 14, 2006 
    
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  The Bible's All Wrong, Again
The surprising Gospel of Judas proves you just can't be too sure about all that God stuff
By Mark Morford   Is it not just tremendous heaps of casually blasphemous fun to learn, once again and for the thousandth time, that the Bible -- that happy mish-mashed messed-up hodgepodgey cocktail of myths and folklore and revisionist propaganda and who's-your-daddy reproaches intermixed with lovely stories of redemption and hope and oh yes sin and hellfire and death -- is so full of colorful holes it might as well be a bedsheet from Baghdad Target?   Is it not some sort of curious intellectual delight to hear about the discovery of yet another Gnostic gospel, this time the Gospel of Judas, a scruffy ol' tract that's been lying around for years, which would seem to reveal Christianity's second-favorite villain to be, well, not at all the sniveling ass who turned Jesus over to the cops for a fistful of hummus money, but actually a sly and secret conspirator of his pal Jesus, much in the way Biff helped young Christ learn Zen Buddhism and martial arts and got him drunk
 (and very nearly laid) in Christopher Moore's fabulous "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff: Christ's Childhood Pal"? Of course it is.   If the Bible is the gold brick in the American spiritual sidewalk, then you simply have to ask: What is the relevance in the fact that Christ might not have been betrayed at all? That he may have orchestrated his own arrest? What does this say about his divine wisdom? About Bible stories as a whole? More importantly, how does the new and improved Judas story pinch the ass of our collective mythology? Does it or does it not kick out one of the shaky support beams of the modern Church? Shouldn't it?   The answer, of course, is it depends on just how deep your personal stick is stuck in the divine mud. Because now more than ever, hard-core religious and political types think it's all clear and righteous and straight, that life's moral codes and cultural guidelines have all been correctly (and homophobically, and misogynistically) spelled out
 in grainy divine ink, in ancient ironclad stories that would deign to tell us how to think and feel and live. ...   (click here to read the rest)   (Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/04/14/notes041406.DTL&nl=fix)     
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