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To: Greg or e who wrote (49453)	3/12/2014 7:10:05 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus: amazon.com These atheists are really going at it these days, oh my... patheos.com Christianity was probably constructed to “divert Jewish hostility and aggressiveness into a pacifist religion, supportive of–and subservient to–Roman rule,” but not by Romans, but exasperated Jews like Paul, who saw Jewish militarism as unacceptably disastrous in contrast with the obvious advantages of retooling their messianic expectations to produce the peaceful moral reform of society. The precedents were all there already in pre-Christian Jewish ideology and society (in Philo’s philosophy, in Essene and Qumranic efforts to solve the same problems, and so on) so we don’t have to posit super-genius Aryans helping the poor little angry Jews to calm down.