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A-Meister <a@meister.net> wrote:

johac wrote:

In article <c9idnWOQZ9kLH6rZRVn-ug@adelphia.com>,
A-Meister <a@meister.net> wrote:

johac wrote:

In article <94SdnWfL0JZEvKvZnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@adelphia.com>,
A-Meister <a@meister.net> wrote:

johac wrote:

In article <1144352753.317757.318160@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:

'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years
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By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: April 6, 2006

An early Christian manuscript, including the only known text of what
is
known as the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years. The
text
gives new insights into the relationship of Jesus and the disciple
who
betrayed him, scholars reported today. In this version, Jesus asked
Judas, as a close friend, to sell him out to the authorities, telling
Judas he will "exceed" the other disciples by doing so.

Though some theologians have hypothesized this, scholars who have
studied the new-found text said, this is the first time an ancient
document defends the idea.

So after all this time, Judas finally hired a new spin doctor?

Yeah.

He borrowed them from the Bush administration.

So that's what happened to Ari Fleischer!

Heh. How 'bout that spin, after all: "Gee, if the
president leaked classified information it's not
classified anymore, and therefore not a leak."

Translation: "If you leak something I don't want
people to know, it's a leak. If I leak something
I want people to know, it's not a leak."

"It's not a leak if I say it isn't" Actually he's following historical
precedent:

"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."

Richard M. Nixon

"It is legal because I wish it."

Louis XIV

"Define 'sex'?"

Clinton

(Although, for the record, I think screwing
an entire nation is much worse than screwing
an intern)

I'll agree with that.

I like Bush's latest: "It's only classified
until I leak it, then it becomes unclassified,
by definition." I'm paraphrasing, obviously,
but you get the drift.