(55 quotes found)
“Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing”
Benjamin Disraeli
“God is sacred. Religion is profane.”
Rain Bojangles
“To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman”
Mark Twain
“[Judas is] the one who handed over his friend. He's the one who brought about the crucifixion, and he's the one who is damned for all time.”
Marvin Meyer
“He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.”
Elaine Pagels
“Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.”
Karen Armstrong
“The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.”
Craig Evans
“A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.”
Paul Bloom
“Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.”
Bart Ehrman
“Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist”
