RE: Would they worship a chair?
April 26, 2021 at 2:40 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2021 at 2:42 am by Bucky Ball.)
Actually in the Pax Romana, there was a standing order in the Roman provinces, that trouble-makers were summarily exectuted with no trial.
If Jesus existed, that's what happened. He started a ruckus in the temple concerning the conversion of money.
Roman money was unclean, and could not be used to pay the priests or buy the animals. Thus the "money-changers" incident.
It was not a religious squabble. The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on, and dependent on the temple based economy.
The Jewish festivals, (including the Passover) drew thousands of visitors to the city, and it's what the entire city depended on for revenue.
A nobody-preacher from Hicksville who threatened that was a gonner. There was every reason for a Roman governor to get rid of someone who was a threat to the peace and Roman revenue.
If Jesus existed, that's what happened. He started a ruckus in the temple concerning the conversion of money.
Roman money was unclean, and could not be used to pay the priests or buy the animals. Thus the "money-changers" incident.
It was not a religious squabble. The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on, and dependent on the temple based economy.
The Jewish festivals, (including the Passover) drew thousands of visitors to the city, and it's what the entire city depended on for revenue.
A nobody-preacher from Hicksville who threatened that was a gonner. There was every reason for a Roman governor to get rid of someone who was a threat to the peace and Roman revenue.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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