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“You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.”

Supposedly the words of Jesus Christ to Judas Iscariot, interpreted as meaning Judas will liberate Jesus’s true self, as revealed in documents carbon-dated to AD 300 and said to be the Gospel of Judas (The New York Times, 6 April)

“If God loves you, you do much better than people who don’t have any beliefs.”

AIDS researcher Solomon Katz, on a study showing that people who are HIV-positive and believe God loves them lose vital CD4 immune-system cells at only one-third the rate of…

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