RE: They Are Going To Have To Kill This Fucker
September 19, 2013 at 3:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2013 at 3:58 pm by Minimalist.)
(September 19, 2013 at 2:38 pm)Drich Wrote: Seriously look into the book of revelation a little. Or read some commentary on the 'harlot' of babylon.
It's been done...and by people who know a fuck-ton more than you do.
http://booksellers.penguin.com/nf/Book/B...49,00.html
Quote:In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies.
Revelations dates itself to late 68/very early 69 BC. Shortly before Jerusalem was stormed by Titus. But the handwriting was already on the wall by that time.