"Though Bardesanes represents Judas Thomas as a second Christ, he does not represent him as a good man. What we gather from the story in the Acts, and what Fr. Francis and his Church neglect to tell the faithful, is that Jesus was a slave trader who sold Thomas to Abbanes for thirty pieces of silver; Thomas was an antisocial character who lied to his royal employer and stole money from him; Thomas ill-treated women and enslaved them; Thomas practised black magic and was executed for disobeying the king’s order to stop and leave the country; Thomas was Jesus’s twin brother, implying that the four canonical Gospels are unreliable sources which have concealed a crucial fact, viz. that Jesus was not God’s Only Begotten Son. In fact, Jesus and Thomas were God’s twin-born sons. In other words, accepting the Thomas legend as history is equivalent to exploding the doctrinal foundation of Christianity."