User blog comment:Palantian/Fate/Oblivion Twilight/@comment-26009782-20150204063351/@comment-1458758-20150205043322

Even though I'm an atheist, I honestly find a lot of the aversion is more the expectation of recourse as opposed to actual opposition.

I mean Hellsing had the Iscariot group as the main representation of Catholics in it, and people think they're awesome.

Dracula 2000 (Shitty movie) had Dracula be Judas Iscariot, and people disliked that movie, not because Dracula was Judas, but just cause it was a terrible film.

Red Dwarf had a character whose middle name was Judas, and while played for laughs, in the Tenth season special, actually implies Judas to be a positive figure.

So clearly, there's no lack of popular series that actually use Judas and don't suffer recourse for it, it mostly just seems to be that people fear that it's a hot button topic and thus avoid it.