Of Muhammad borrowing templates from Judaism & Christianity to mold his little art project of Islam ,should have also said men take their demons from each other as well as their angels & gods. In their quest for building shining ivory towered cities in the sun & holy empires populated by the righteous. Have to give that desert prophet kudos for having a same Alexander/Great vision, for his last orders to his uncle was to take the army & go attack the Romans, so larger expansion was definitely on his mind from the beginning.
( Pinky, tomorrow we conquere the world! Yes Brain, we'll subdue them & convert them all to the 'Truth'!)
All those PBS documentaries are great aren't they? Here's the same professor from Harvard, Shaye Cohen tackling the 'Massada Myth' in the series 'Jesus to the Christ', do we look at these zealouts with approbation or approbrium?
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What we see happening with the Romans entering Judae was to creat an order on a parallel to our attempts to bringing the culture of democracy to the ME today. And we're running into the same tribal mindset & culture, big surprise? One reads the history of the follow on Kitos & Bar Kokhba revolts, there were still messiahs springing up like weeds in these apocolyptic times. The Jews for the next 2000yrs cling to these hero myths but at the same time know they were also following messianic madmen & a bit mad themselves.
(Why good heaping doses of Greek Philosophy always helped out everytime to tame & assuage that violent tendency for older messianic chosen people hallucinations , which got them into trouble over & over again. ) |
