Judas: A Saint for Our Seasons

Vanderleun explains the thrill that atheists get in "sticking it" to Christians, this time with the "Gospel" of Judas.

A must read, but here is an excerpt from a great writer:


This dark thrill of denigration has the immediate benefit of pleasingly confirming them in their own Church of Zero, and the secondary benefit of being much, much safer than, say, sticking it to Islam, a faith that enforces its demands for respect with bombs and beheadings, and whose central message to all cowards is "Don't mess with Muhammad." The sad fact of our modern era is that if you denigrate Islam, you often have to bag up body parts and hose down the sidewalk, but when you denigrate Christianity the most you need to clean up after yourself is a warm washcloth.