(July 25, 2015 at 5:35 pm)Rahul Wrote:(July 25, 2015 at 4:11 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: They had a phobia about being counted.
Nation sponsored genocide tends to do that.
According to the biblical fairy tale they used to like being counted but then they got a phobia about it.
Moses had the census game down pat. He made the people pay a ransom for their souls so that they wouldn't get a plague when he did the census. It was a good racket for him and his gang.
God told David to do a census, which he did. David then felt guilty for having done it at God's orders. God then killed 70,000 in a plague.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=MSG
Current census forms don't have any questions about how many household members have been resurrected. If the Romans had conducted a census after Jesus' resurrection and asked him if he had been resurrected ithe question might be standard on all census forms today.