(August 30, 2013 at 4:42 am)Godschild Wrote:(August 30, 2013 at 4:20 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The bit I find unconvincing in the story is the need for everyone to go back to their place of birth. A requirement that would cause massive upheaval, decimate the economy and be avoided by adding the question "place of birth" on the the census.
The economy of that time was not even close to what we have, and it would be like most everyone going on vacation and spending money on their needs, so it would generate a bit of money being passed around. I would say that many people never left their birth place or at least not far away. Many Jews of the day traveled to Jerusalem every year for Passover. Just some ideas to think about.
GC
So what you are saying that it would not have been easier to include the question place of birth on a census rather than have every person traipse back to where they were born?
It may have moved money "around" but things would not have been made.
There is a reason that people aren't forced. no matter their medical condition, to their place of birth in order to fill out a census.
It is doing a census the stupid way and Romans were not stupid.
It is a mad scheme that no rational person would put in place. It looks to me like an excuse to plug in the Mithras birth myth so they can make the christian god appeal to Mithras worshipping roman soldiers.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
