'NEW' GOSPELS DON'T MEASURE UP

Doug Mendenhall wonders if the Gospel of Judas will rock Christianity to the core:

With the National Geographic Society's unveiling of "The Gospel of Judas," a raggedy papyrus book puts a different spin on the traditional stories of Jesus. Many people - including the Geographic - are asking dramatic questions about whether this could destroy Christianity as we know it.

The answer, of course, is no.

(By the way, that's the same answer to the question people keep asking me about whether Dan Brown's "DaVinci Code" could rewrite Christian history. C'mon, people, it's just a novel.)

Just so. And he's got a nice survey of some telling quotes about the other 'new' gospels, too. And people ask why these didn't make into the canon?