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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (17089)	4/15/2004 3:31:19 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Certainly the historical context is important but I don't see how that changes the facts of history. The uprisings were not just context, they were the most dramatic and important events of the time. The killings in Jerusalem were easily as big a percentage of the worldwide Jewish population as was the later Halocaust, and they occurred, right as the Gospels were being written. John, if I am not mistaken, right before the first uprising, and the other 3 right before the second. I believe they were written to gain gentile support for these uprisings. When the uprisings failed they took on a "life of their own". The poor had little chance of being the patron or deacon of any of the Roman temples as there was competition to have the best sacrifice. Christianity gave them an alternative, and the gospels have them a ready made and coherent foundation complete with as long a history as the Greeks. TP