• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    If you gathered everyone that was involved in writing the original old books of the Bible … they would look like hard core religious fanatics from Afghanistan and pretty much have the same mentality.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      With a side of David Koresh thrown in.

      Jesus was likely one of a couple dozen 2-bit-Jewish mystics cropping up in the region. The Sanhedron were very much trying to stamp that particular wave of heretics out; in large part because many of them were building cults of personality in the same way televangelists grift their followers,