Quote: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.
It was Bertrand Russell (I think) who once opined that most of the modern world's troubles could be traced to the fact that 1st century Judea lacked a really top-notch lunatic asylum.
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