Wonder Bread

History Channel produces excellent documentaries.

They unleashed a powerful show on the lost Gospel of Judas this past Sabbath Day.

Producers kept the preaching to a minimum. The show asked viewers to sit for hours and watch forensic puzzle assemblers put together a thin piece of papyrus as fragile as the written word itself.

Time had worn away the artifact and its precious words and left an impossible pile of written rubble to piece back into a grammatically correct ancient poem.

Scientist were able to unravel the antiquated mysteries of tiny pieces of prehistoric papyrus by comparing microscopic elements of certain sections of the decomposed pages.

Perhaps scribes ate and drank at their pages like I often do, leaving behind a trail of words seasoned with wine and potato chips.

Under a microscope, re-writers and editors are able to assemble the pieces in near- perfect poetic puzzle shapes. They haven’t quite finished the job, but the few reformatted pages of the Gospel of Judas tell some interesting stories of the man who betrayed Jesus with a kiss.

The writer of the Gospel of Judas was forced to watch critics destroy his words.

It must have been heartbreaking when his work was not chosen for publication in the New Testament.

The History Channel informs us that according to the recently discovered Gnostic Gospel, Jesus asked Judas to turn him in for the crucifixion.

At the Last Supper, it turns out Jesus laughed hysterically as eleven disciples followed the traditions of Old Testament and broke bread during Passover and didn’t volunteer for the job of snitch like Judas did.

It was hysterical! He laughed and laughed. He was, after all, the wine and bread of life.

The History Channel explained that perhaps it was all a clever plot– an attempt by publishers to keep readers focused on their yet to be developed hatred of Jews. "Judas" was a name easily associated with "Jew" and by making him the great betrayer... the rest is history.

I laughed too, but really wasn’t sure why.

I always thought communion was rather silly. In my church they used Wonder bread and Welch’s grape juice to symbolize the Last Supper.

When I had my first cocktail in life, I realized that Christians are sacrilegious and should pass around potato chips and not little square pieces of dry white bread when celebrating the savior’s re-birth.