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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (112126)	1/9/2008 8:44:12 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I personally, and based on the history I studied, think Jesus was a composite of several people of the era. Paul was basically looking for a way to eliminate Rome which he thought was violent and unethical, while still enjoying the perks of being a Roman. His brand of change culminated in the Roman system moving to the Greek world (Constantinople) again. Of course that didn't happen for a few hundred years, but he started the process of taking the government back to the educated Greeks and away from the uncouth Romans by using the chosen status of the Jews. Christianity was the compromise of all these forces. -Edit The Romans under the Republic were able to claim that they represented all people, noble and plebe alike. The populous agreed that this was better than the elitist Greeks with their emphasis on Citizens and slaves. After the Roman Civil war Paul was able to make the case that Rome was more despotic than the Greek way and his kinder Jesus way, and the populous began to agree after being confronted by the likes of Nero and Caligula. TP