I never understood the Judas Iscariot story, not
even as a child when I was in thrall to Low Anglican brainwashing. If the received
account is to be believed, by the time Jesus was arrested he was so famous and
influential that both the church and secular authorities feared him. Why,
therefore, did the Romans need to pay somebody to point him out?
It strikes me now as a poor attempt to introduce a
traitor into the probable fiction for dramatic effect. Must find out whether
there was a Judas equivalent in the story of Mithras, since that seems to be
mostly what the Jesus story is based on.
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