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Ivan Fraser's avatar

The entire question could be a red herring if this was all written by Romans after 70 AD based on Greek and Egyptian astrotheology and philosophy set in Judea. That there was never a Jesus nor a Jewish authority that even resembles our idea of Judea. That it was all concocted to steal the identity of Judean rebels and their raison d'etre to claim their inheritance and beliefs as the new overseers in their Imperial cult.

The very idea of Jesus being from Judea and Christianity emerging from there would be entirely fictitious.

The false accusation of antisemitism is a misnomer. The blame is, as you say, on the Romans. And Judaism would never have existed if the Romans hadn't spread it globally to make their claim of the inheritance appear valid.

1984 happened 2 millennia ago. We haven't shaken the consequences of Roman Propaganda still. Truth? What is truth?

For that, ask Plato, not a series of propaganda pamphlets of ancient mythology pressed into a book to steal indigenous people's property and souls without requirement for armies and overheads.

Metal Wizard Dad's avatar

If Christianity were internally consistent, Christians would be on their knees every day thanking their God for the part the Jews (and Judas for that matter) allegedly played in facilitating the necessary redemptive death of Jesus.

David Black MD's avatar

Please considee NOT "dumbing down" your writing. Bart Ehrmans Biblical Studies Academy, no has nearly 1300 PAID subscribers, 1000 in the 1st year. For 33 years i attended dumbed down Sunday School classes which were largely poolings n of ignorance