Judas. Holy Cow, Batman!

What is this deal about Judas?
Some are damming him, some are enthralled with him,
some have no idea who this Judas person was or did.
The only thing I can't figure out is who instigated
and why was this Biblical plot conceived as a means
of identification? And for what real purpose?

According to the Biblical record, Jesus did not hide
in the shadows or work his "magic" by night like a
vampire. According to the Biblical record, he spoke
to multitudes, in daylight, in public places. Some
Roman soldiers even attended his 'seminars.' His
identity was never a point of contention with anyone.
He was recognized on sight by many Biblical characters.

So why was Judas needed to walk up to Jesus and kiss
him as a means of identification? At night? In a
garden? [By the butler, in the library.]

This is really a "B-" movie plot. A plot within a plot
within a plot that doesn't explain anything and leads
down a deadend alley.

There exists another series of scrolls that seems to
be experiencing the same fate as other 'finds' that
help explain who we are and what we've experienced as
a race, but are disregarded by upperclass 'gods'
because the information the other scrolls contain
don't fit in with either their own or established
ideas.

These scrolls tell of Jesus making the statement, from
a distance, that the man being nailed to the cross was
in fact not Jesus at all, but a pretend Messiah. Perhaps
it was this pretender-to-the-title that Judas did in
fact kiss in order to save the real Jesus from
unnecessary public scorn and degredation. Someone had
to be fingered, tapped, pointed out. The mob didn't
really care what he looked like, they just wanted blood,
a spectacle, a show, to be entertained and releived of
the high blood pressure they had worked up for
themselves. After all, the Coliseum, too far to just
bop in for a matinee, wasn't the only place that
could provide good entertainment.
Judas was the man for the job.
That, as a plot, certainly makes more sense than the
most recent "finalized" version.

I think the Jews knew exactly who Jesus was, a teacher
of things they, and obviously the rest of mankind,
may have let slide a little. I think that the 'kiss
and tell' plot was conceived as a co-authored plan
between the Jewish leaders and the diciples as a way
to actually keep 'the teacher' from being put to death.
I think the so-called Christian leaders of later years
changed a word here and and a word there in order to
portray the Jews as a lesser people while at the same
time hedging their bets because Jesus was born a Jew!

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It never ceases to amaze me how we as a people of
such diverse backgrounds can close our minds to ideas
that we ...well, just don't like. I wonder if we
refuse to accept new ideas because to do so would
disrupt our entire belief system and we are too afraid
of not having anything to instantly fill the void. We
don't have time to think this through, again, because
Susie has to get to ballet class and Reggie has to
be picked up after baseball practice and the Simpsons
will be on TV in one hour.

I guess it really doesn't matter because the majority
of our beliefs were put into our heads by our parents,
preachers/priests/ministers, school teachers and
professors. Very few of them are actually our own
and we don't understand what they have to do with
our paychecks anyway.