I Dub Thee Judas the Good

Forget everything you’ve ever heard about Judas. You know, the treachery, the greediness, the betrayal. That whole, tired story was just a huge misunderstanding. It turns out that Judas was the confidant of Christ, and that Christ asked Judas to betray him to the Romans. In fact, Christ apparently said to Judas: “you will be cursed by the other generations, and you will come to rule over them."

Now, I know what you’re thinking. No, Dan Brown did not just finish a new novel. Actually, scholars have just rediscovered and translated the long-lost Gospel of Judas. Click here for the New York Times story, and here to take a look at the actual document on the National Geographic website.