Gospel

National Geographic always has the most interesting articles. The latest issue is all about a new gospel - you know, it's like the Dead Sea Scrolls or some such. Apparently someone found an old book which was then transfered from person to person for about thirty years until someone got smart enough to take a closer look and what do they find? The Gospel of Judas. Sadly, the people who got a hold of it were stupid enough to undo the binding and shift the pages all around, deteriorating the papyrus and then leaving it in a bank vault.
So the story goes that in the past five years, a famous restorer of documents and a guy who knows his stuff about Coptic (the language in which the gospel was written) worked together and translated all that was left. What it says is that of all the disciples, only Judas truly understood Jesus's message, and that Judas did not willingly betray Jesus. In fact, Jesus asked Judas to do so so that Jesus might be free of his body.
So far, all testing that has been done has proven that the document is actually from the right time period.
Normally, I couldn't care less about religion, but when something this juicy pops up, it's just great. It's like the DaVinci Code or Stigmata, but so much better because the documents have been around for 2000 years. Anyhoo, just thought I'd share. Nifty, no?