That's not an answer. Do you deny the Letter of St. James is canonical or not? If you do, why? If you do not, how can you blasphemously declare it to be "an epistle of straw"?
***Do you deny the Letter of St. James is canonical or not?***
Do I?
"Among the DISPUTED books, although they are known and approved by many, is reputed, that called the Epistle of JAMES and Jude. Also the Second Epistle of Peter and those called the Second and third of John, whether they are of the Evangelest or some other of the same name.
...EUSEBIUS' ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Excellent book. You should read it some time.
Yes they are cannonical. But you still have to look at them through the Jewish Christian filter.