Let's Not Canonize Judas Quite Yet
What The Da Vinci Code hath wrought

Yeah, yeah, yeah... we've been bombarded with the fiction that there is a completely valid and legitimate Gospel that has been lost for centuries; the so-called Gospel of Judas.

But the Dan Brown Brigade seems to gloss over the lil fact that one of the heavy hitters of the Early Church, St. Irenaeus, condemned it as early as 180 AD. Oh, and the small handful that adhered to said writing were also Gnostics... you know, those wild and crazy heretics who believed;

1. The Gnostic Savior does not save. Gnosticism lacks the idea of atonement. There is no sin to be atoned for, except ignorance be that sin. Nor does the Saviour in any sense benefit the human race by vicarious sufferings.

2. The Gnostic Savior has no human nature, not a man; he only seemed a man. Gnostics deny The Duality of Christ. Jesus was True God but not True Man. The notion that Jesus needed to be released from “the man that clothes him”, or his physical body, hearkens back to an early Church heresy that which suggested that the flesh was evil and mankind needed to shed material things for the sake of the spiritual.

3. Catholic ethics teach that one can never use an evil means to reach a good end. Under Catholic thinking, it would never be morally acceptable for Judas to betray his master, even for the sake of a greater good. So much for the idea that Jesus ordered Judas to betray Him.

You know, what it really comes down to is this; either the Gospel of Judas is heresy, or Catholicism has been perpetrating a fraud on all Mankind for almost 2,000 years. It's time we drew a line in the sand. We as Catholics, need to stand up to this garbage.