On Apr 6, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
So stand up, stand up for Judas and the cause that Judas served
It was Jesus who betrayed the poor with his word
While not antisemitic, this song is as much a historical travesty as
anything from the Pauline 'Christians." Jesus, as claimant to the
royal title of Messiah, was preparing an armed rising against the
Romans--why else did the male disciples go *armed* to Gethsemane? Why
else did Jesus call on his followers to buy swords even if one had to
sell his only cloak to do so? And why else did the Romans mobilize a
whole cohort in the middle of the night to back up Herod's Temple
police?
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Apr 5, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Robert Naiman wrote that title
I object in the strongest terms to the use of that vile antisemitic
meme "Judas." Judas according to the Gospel account was the faithful
agent of Jesus in everything he did. "Betrayal" was the libel put
out by the Paulines to brand the Jewish people with the murder of
their invented "God."
(See "Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil" by Hyam Maccoby)
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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