While browsing at my favourite bookstore the other day, I came across several books on the Gospel of Judas. My attention was immediately aroused, since I've been fascinated by the person Judas for several years now. I've never really agreed with the canonical Gospels, which depict Judas as a traitor to Jesus. My personal theory was based on the assumption that Christianity would never have reached the heights it did had Jesus never died as a martyr. Which leads to the logical (?) conclusion that Jesus, and his favourite disciple, concocted the whole plan together.

Not that I'm an expert on this subject. My knowledge on religion is rather limited, so I don't pretend to know the truth. My opinion is based in large part on gut feeling; the whole "Judas as traitor" theory just never clicked for me. Correct me if I'm wrong, since again, my knowledge on this is shaky at best, but I thought that Judas was the disciple with the most faith in Jesus initially, and that Jesus also considered Judas to be the disciple who most understood his messages and lessons.

I was actually pretty disappointed that my theory was in large part reflected by the Gospel. I never imagined that my ideas were completely unique, but now the whole theory is apparently a huge story in the religious world and is the source for tons of books. I was actually hoping that someday I'd be able to work out the whole theory into a plot for a novel, but now the whole idea seems much less special than first. I guess that doing so now would require me to ask for permission, or else I'll be accused of plagiarism. Ah well, it's not as if the probability of me actually writing the novel was great in the first place, so I guess the loss isn't that big.

Anyway, I think I've done enough babbling for the moment, so I'll just leave it at this :).