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I’m With Judas

Monday, 4 Feb 2008 at 5:28 pm

Judas has a point.

Jesus and Mary Magdalene are good, but the actor who portrays Judas owns this movie.

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5 Comments

  1. Lincoln Cannon said,

    February 4, 2008 @ 9:25 pm

    Careful. Nihilism is somewhere in that direction.

  2. Jonathan Blake said,

    February 4, 2008 @ 10:08 pm

    I’ve been in and through nihilism. It clears the ground and makes way for our true will. When we lose our fear of the void, we can learn what’s on the other side.

  3. C. L. Hanson said,

    February 6, 2008 @ 9:58 am

    I’ve always liked that song. Actually, I like the whole movie. That and The Life of Brian are the best retellings of the Jesus story — both are more compelling than the original version.

  4. John said,

    February 6, 2008 @ 1:44 pm

    I grew up watching this when it came on TV during Easter. Judas and Pilate are the most interesting characters in this (though Ted Neely’s Jesus is pretty good, too). I can belt out most of Judas’ lines with feeling. :P He is very sympathetic.

    Have you seen The Last Temptation of Christ? It’s another great portrayal of Jesus and those around him.

  5. Jonathan Blake said,

    February 7, 2008 @ 8:29 am

    I like Life of Brian, too. I haven’t watched The Last Temptation of Christ, but I remember the controversy when it came out. It’s now at the top of my Netflix queue. :)

    When I said that Judas had a point, by the way, I was only agreeing that there is a contradiction between scriptures like Matthew 19:21 and Mark 10:21 and the incident recounted in John 12:3–8 and shown in this video.

    That bit about Judas being a thief sounds suspiciously like propaganda after the fact. According to the Gospel of Judas, Judas was the only disciple who truly understood Jesus’ teachings and the future course of his life. As the movie portrays, his part in the story was divinely appointed, the knife in God’s hand to sacrifice His son. The Gospel of Judas says that Judas died not at his own hands but at the hands of the other eleven apostles who stoned him to death because they misunderstood.

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