Where is Jesus?

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That said, the date of the alleged birth of the fictional Jesus must be wrong because Herod died in the year 2 B.C. He could not logically have ordered the Jewish babies killed when he was dead. There is another detail. The Hebrew scholars forgot to mention anywhere that their children were ordered dead by the Romans in year 1. Maybe they didn’t mind?

This is one thing that has really puzzled me about the NT. Even if Herod could have given the order, it doesn't make a lot of sense since Herod was merely a figurehead propped up by the Roman government. He didn't have the authority to order Roman soldiers to do something like this, on this scale-- and based on a silly prophecy? Te Roman government would have laughed at him. It also would've created a hell of a lot of civil unrest, something not exactly in the Roman's interest (the Jews were a pain in ass enough as it was for the Romans). And yet no mention off it outside of the gospel accounts. (I find the same thing puzzling about the OT with the ten plagues, and the Israelite exodus. There is no mention of this in Egyptian history that I am aware of).