Comments on: gospel of Judas http://www.dksez.com/?p=121 Quips, queries, and querulous quibbles from the quirky mind of Don Kahle Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: BillThePoet http://www.dksez.com/?p=121&cpage=1#comment-52 BillThePoet Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:40:52 +0000 http://www.dksez.com/?p=121#comment-52 My sense is that I'm still a half a dozen re-readings away from getting it, but this feels like an important piece. [How can you make BillThePoet yell Aha! during Easter service? Give him dk's Judas column on Palm Sunday.] I have only a Philosophy 101 Student Union all-nighter understanding of gnostic thinking, so I was sort of uncomfortable with this "discovery." Why wouldn't contemporaneous witness testimony be more valid than the various modern and too-institutional franchise versions of the Good News? And if I were He, wouldn't it be irresistable to let Judas in on the secret? Whisper he was completing the prophesy? Like the old golf joke about God giving the preacher a hole in one when he was playing hookey on Easter Sunday -- who's he gonna tell? But as dk observes, it was dismissed _at the time_ as heretical. And if I'm going to assign contemporaneous validity to the Gospel of Judas, I guess I have to extend the same courtesy to the group that contemporaneously condemned it as a privately motivated distortion. Hey, dk, how about a column on short walk-don't walk cycles on Eugene traffic lights? My brain hurts. My sense is that I’m still a half a dozen re-readings away from getting it, but this feels like an important piece.

[How can you make BillThePoet yell Aha! during Easter service? Give him dk's Judas column on Palm Sunday.]

I have only a Philosophy 101 Student Union all-nighter understanding of gnostic thinking, so I was sort of uncomfortable with this “discovery.” Why wouldn’t contemporaneous witness testimony be more valid than the various modern and too-institutional franchise versions of the Good News? And if I were He, wouldn’t it be irresistable to let Judas in on the secret? Whisper he was completing the prophesy? Like the old golf joke about God giving the preacher a hole in one when he was playing hookey on Easter Sunday — who’s he gonna tell?

But as dk observes, it was dismissed _at the time_ as heretical. And if I’m going to assign contemporaneous validity to the Gospel of Judas, I guess I have to extend the same courtesy to the group that contemporaneously condemned it as a privately motivated distortion.

Hey, dk, how about a column on short walk-don’t walk cycles on Eugene traffic lights? My brain hurts.

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