St. Judas Iscariot, pray for us

Torture Defender Greta scrapes the absolute bottom of the barrel over at the Coalition for Clarity comboxes as she strives to find a justification for committing grave sins that send you to Hell so that she can save her skin:

I ask again to show me anywhere in the gospels Christ was taking his disciples on a protest march against crucifixion and everything done to him in the Passion. He was tortured and yet where was the protest. Yet there is no doubt that we would today call this torture in very plain terms and all would agree. Imagine if they had waterboarded Christ and let him go. Where would be our salvation. Good can never come from evil some of you have said and I point to the Cross and the Passion of our Lord.

So it turns out that Judas Iscariot was a hero for betraying Jesus to crucifixion! If he hadn’t had the courage to do that, where would we be?

As I was saying, one of the marks of the satanic inversion of values is the tendency to identify the willingness to do grave evil with “courage”.

By the way, for future moral idiots: Nobody says good cannot come from evil. The monstrous evil of Judas’ betrayal of the sinless Son of God issued in the supreme good of the Resurrection and the salvation of the human race.

But a fat lot of good that did Judas Iscariot.

Remember that when you “courageously” declare that you would be willing to go to Hell for your preferred good end. What? You think Judas was a movie villain who woke up one morning and said, “How can I be Eeeeeevil today?” No. Like every other person who has committed monstrous sin, he told himself he was trying to do Good and that justified his cutting moral corners.

“Why were these things not sold and given to the poor? Jesus is getting too full of himself. I’m concerned about the way this cult of personality is taking over people’s lives. I need that thirty pieces of silver in order to achieve some greater good. Yes, it’s too bad that Jesus might be treated a bit roughly. But he never did really appreciate the things that I thought were important, like social justice and national security.”

These were the sorts of rationales he offered himself because these are the sorts of rationales men have offered themselves ever since they looked on the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and said “I know it’s wrong, but I really want what I want.” Like every clown who has ever done something despicable, he had his “reasons”.