(September 3, 2013 at 9:07 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Imagine how much easier it would be in the desperate and ignorant and desperately religious first century palestine.
I would contend this point that the people in Palestine during the first century CE were desperate for religion. In fact, it wasn't for another 4 centuries that the Roman Empire force-fed Christianity to the masses, with other empires down the road doing the same.



