Nothing like religion to bring out those warm fuzzy feelings.

Teach your children well.

such subtlety.

That's interesting.

- Stevie Smith, "Sunt Leones"

The claim is different: Betrayed. But the victim was in the know and gave Judas enough rope to hang himself. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

The claim is Jesus gave him notice that he knew what Judas was doing--with the clear implication that it was wrong--and was in no way his brother's warden. Jesus didn't, as many Xians do, cite Cain as their behavioral authority.

Betrayed in what way?

Jesus is the Messiah, yes? The purpose of the Messiah is to suffer and die and through blood atone for original sin. Without the crucifixion, there is no salvation. It wasn't betrayal, it was a necessity. And instead of burning Judas in effigy, these clownshoes should be falling on their knees to thank him for doing what the 11 other apostles were apparently too fucking stupid to do themselves.

There is no Jesus Christ.

where Jesus didn't tell Judas that he was going to betray him, rather he commanded Judas to turn him over, and Judas couldn't live with it even though it was the plan?

They aren't generally considered canonical.

Then there's what they just left out of cannon. There was a gospel of Judas they found or something. I don't remember the circumstances, not a big fan of that lore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas

The Gospels make Judas out to be just a bad guy generally, even before he supposedly betrayed Jesus. They say he was a thief and that he didn't care about the poor, for example. Jesus even says outright that he's a devil. Then, you have this conflicting gospel of Judas. They can't both be true, can they?

Speculation time:

According to the book of Acts, things got ugly fast in the fledgling church. When Ananias and Sapphira sold their land and gave some of the proceeds to the Apostles, Peter demanded to know if they'd handed over all the money from the sale. Rather than telling him to keep his nose out of their business, they lied to Peter, and they were killed for it. After that, "Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events."

If there's any bit of truth to that story, I imagine many didn't much like the direction Peter and the Apostles were taking the church, such as employing violence and threats to keep the congregants in line. It makes sense that some people would break off, and come up with alternate interpretations of the basic gospel story that were wildly different from the Apostles' version.

No betrayal, no crucifixion, no resurrection. Judas was the key to Christianity.

Borat opens with a parody of a eastern european folk festival that is so overtly anti-semitic that it is beyond cringe comedy.