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To: average joe who wrote (7829)	6/24/2010 12:06:49 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Hitler's history of Jesus was a corrupt one but not an uncommon view at the time. It was fairly mainstream. Mainstream religious authority has that tendency and it is not hard to explain if you consider the power politics of the matter. "For a small fee I could represent and defend Christ much better ... Ok, so your love is not free but it is at least cheap? Hating Jews for the sake of Jesus is ludicrous. There were four main Jewish sects at the time Jesus walked the earth, the Zealots, Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. The reason the Roman army was occupying the area was at the request of the Pharisees who also promoted Josephus the historian. The Pharisees were the most politically powerful group and had been putting people to death for over a century who would claim to be the 'Teacher of Righteousness' and raise up a following. Herod was considered a Jew and called himself King of the Jews. Herod had put many of his immediate family and others to death in fear some one would make some claim on his leadership role. How do you think that set with the label attributed to Jesus? John the Baptist was of the Essenes and preached to his followers to get away from the Roman ruler and Jewish conflict with them. Jesus is believed to be related to John. If you deny the divinity of Jesus but look at how his message might have clashed with the other sects, much of it is still very believable. The Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including marriage and daily baptisms. The four sects were very much in civil strife with each other. Zealots lopped off heads of people who didn't follow their way and the conduct of the Sadducees and Pharisees is critically targeted in the New Testament words of Jesus, but not the Essenes. The Essenes were big on being separate from society, so it should be little surprise many of them and their teaching would survive and flourish in the region during the initial years of Jewish Diaspora (whether or not you believe it is backed by divine authority).