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Why can't Christians Verify Exactly Where Jesus Was Buried?
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(November 23, 2016 at 7:52 am)chimp3 Wrote: I thought that only happened at hangings. [Insert "well hung" joke here]
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(November 23, 2016 at 12:46 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Penniless enemies of the state don't typically get a fancy burial complete with tomb. In fact they tend to be left to decompose in view of the public. That's kind of the point. You know, I don't think there's ever been a person in recorded history got branded an enemy of the state because he went around telling people to pay their taxes.
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Home (November 23, 2016 at 8:26 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(November 23, 2016 at 12:46 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Penniless enemies of the state don't typically get a fancy burial complete with tomb. In fact they tend to be left to decompose in view of the public. That's kind of the point. Yeah but he was a dick about it.
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(November 23, 2016 at 1:56 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Genuine article not so keen on deliberately fucking himself then. Suppose you probably don't make prefect with that kind of behavior. Insert topical quip. Roman politics involved in this. Pilate was appointed in 26. Coincidentally, or not, in 26 Emperor Tiberius went in to semi-retirement on the Isle of Capri and left the day to day running of the empire to Lucius Aelius Sejanus. Thus it seems likely that Pilate was Sejanus' man rather than Tiberius'. Sejanus was overthrown and executed in 31 after apparently plotting a coup against Tiberius. In 36 Pilate was relieved by the Governor of Syria, Lucius Vitellius, probably more for being a holdover from Sejanus' clique than for smacking down the Samaritans, as Josephus claimed. In the latter case he would have simply been doing his job.
Anyone plotting a coup against Tiberius needs executed.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
(November 23, 2016 at 7:54 am)Firefighter01 Wrote:(November 23, 2016 at 7:52 am)chimp3 Wrote: I thought that only happened at hangings.
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probably because jesus never existed. The proof for the existence of a "Jesus of Nazareth," is shaky at best. Problem is, the historians have not reached a consensus on really any of the details surrounding this man. Some historians believe that Jesus was actually a common name then and the Bible actually refers to several different people as jesus throughout the Old Testament. All of this stuff is so loose and undefined that who the fuck knows what the truth is. Even if Jesus did exist? So what? That is honestly my biggest point.
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