Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Gospel of Judas: What Does It Really Say?" video.

All the people going on about Satan "entering" Judas are spoiling the academic conversation here with this sectarian belief nonsense. Nobody ruins a religion like its adherents. It's ironic how believers are, more often than not, utterly unqualified to discuss faith in any rational or academic way
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@markjapan4062 Uh, what?
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@MelonieG85 Are you seriously asking that question? That's rather like a child defending Santa Claus' existence with "Who puts the presents under the tree??" Science has decades-since answered the question of the universe's early days, and we have demonstrated that the universe did not require an outside agent to "start" or "create" it
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Sounds a lot like the spurious additions scattered all throughout the texts, like the scene where Jesus apparently predicted the destruction of the Second Temple decades before it fell (the text was written some hundred years after that event). Most of those "predictions of the future" were just authors putting the result of history into the character Jesus' mouth
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The film The Last Temptation of the Christ draws from many of the themes and story elements present in The Gospel of Judas, though it isn't directly based upon the text
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The gospel sounds like a creepypasta
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More prolific ones than we have today, in fact
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I mean, he is that. This book existed in the past and exists now
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@Epiousios18 There is no reason to believe Jesus' miracles are any realer than Arthuir's, in fact there is clear reason to treat them both as equally legendary. Saying otherwise or demanding one faith's miracles are real while another's aren't would be the ignorant, unprovable take
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@lowlsqwid "The Romans wouldn't lie or convert their entire empire to christianity only 200 years after if it were fake." Your argument makes no sense: If Christianity were true, then the Romans did indeed spend thousands of years worshiping fake gods. Historical veracity has little to no bearing on the political applications of religion: Historians even refute the "history" that Constantine and his mother conjured up
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The traitor narrative is just the preeminent religious leaders of the later ecumenical councils having their cake and eating it, too. It's partially meant to supplant all other apostles in favor of Peter, whose persona was foundational to the Western church. It also has to do with emphasizing the corporeal, non-gnostic interpretation of the Jesus stories
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