Walk Across My Swimming Pool

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The New Testament is also in the media mill nowadays in the form of The Gospel of Judas, which has recently been resurrected from fragments of an ancient manuscript. The gospel claims that Judas was only doing God's will when he 'sold out' Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. It makes sense. Somebody had to deliver Jesus into the hands of his enemies and Judas was elected, so to say, to be the 'designated deliverer.' Poor Judas.

Look at it this way: Jesus had to be crucified for our sins, otherwise every one of our sorry asses would burn in hell forever after it bit the biggie. It just makes sense: Jesus had to be crucified. Right? No? Maybe I'll give WHTZSNM another call tonight to clarify the situation.

In any case, this new gospel fits nicely with the story of Judas as told in Jesus Christ Superstar, 'the movie,' which I have on tape. Judas is black (African-Israeli) in this movie. He is also a close confidant who is assigned to do the dirty deed. I must have seen this musical a hundred times and I love it. One of my favorite scenes is the meeting with Herod where Herod sings, '... Prove to me that you're no fool: walk across my swimming pool!'