the Roman Empire officially adopted it, making Latin the language of scripture even centuries later after it became a dead language. The people were unable to know what the book actually said, and remained ignorant until it was translated into vernacular languages, at which point lots of people realized the book said nothing about giving money to priests making it okay to go whoring on the weekends or whatever. Protestant reformation happened and then capitalism grew out of the things that were developed in those wars and now when they teach this to kids in Sunday school they stop at verse 41 and tell you that God is the landlord, which would really piss Jesus off
there's an (admittedly fringe) book from 2005 called Caesar's Messiah that suggests Titus, Bernice, Alexander, and Josephus created the New Testament together as Josephus was writing War of the Jews around the time of Titus's destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and that Christianity is essentially an imperial comprador version of Judaism stitched together from Greek stoicism, Jewish monotheism, and Roman ritual, as a sly way to get enslaved Jews to worship the imperial cult indirectly. It's one of my favorite conspiracy theories of all time even if it's total horse shit. It draws its ideas based on strange parallels between the life of Jesus, and Titus's military campaign, as well as parallels between the New Testament and Josephus's War of the Jews, and also it is fond of pointing out that of all the Militant Messiah figures floating around in Jerusalem in that era, Jesus is the only one who is a pacifist and advocates paying taxes to the Romans.
Why can't more Christians be this based? What happened?
the Roman Empire officially adopted it, making Latin the language of scripture even centuries later after it became a dead language. The people were unable to know what the book actually said, and remained ignorant until it was translated into vernacular languages, at which point lots of people realized the book said nothing about giving money to priests making it okay to go whoring on the weekends or whatever. Protestant reformation happened and then capitalism grew out of the things that were developed in those wars and now when they teach this to kids in Sunday school they stop at verse 41 and tell you that God is the landlord, which would really piss Jesus off
https://old.reddit.com/r/LandlordLove/comments/1731syk/i_got_an_interesting_landlord_story_this_morning/k3zyshk/
Wow you aren't kidding the subreddit is literally arguing that unironically
Classic Protestant cope
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there's an (admittedly fringe) book from 2005 called Caesar's Messiah that suggests Titus, Bernice, Alexander, and Josephus created the New Testament together as Josephus was writing War of the Jews around the time of Titus's destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and that Christianity is essentially an imperial comprador version of Judaism stitched together from Greek stoicism, Jewish monotheism, and Roman ritual, as a sly way to get enslaved Jews to worship the imperial cult indirectly. It's one of my favorite conspiracy theories of all time even if it's total horse shit. It draws its ideas based on strange parallels between the life of Jesus, and Titus's military campaign, as well as parallels between the New Testament and Josephus's War of the Jews, and also it is fond of pointing out that of all the Militant Messiah figures floating around in Jerusalem in that era, Jesus is the only one who is a pacifist and advocates paying taxes to the Romans.