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Originally Posted by tesla69
I dunno, the story of Jesus has been rewritten several times by powerful empires for their own ends (continues today i.e., Dominionists), the truth may be he was part of some radical spiritual revolutionaries against the Romans, and had to flee into the desert. Everyone around Jesus was Hebrew, including Jesus, but somehow the Romans were able to pervert the story so that it was all the Jews fault, and not in fact the Romans who nailed him up - and they're so clever the romans, who nailed jesus and killed him, now are the spiritual leaders/enforcers of christianity.
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I see the Jesus of the Bible much in the same way as I see Socrates in Plato's dialogues. That is to say that the historical Jesus is largely irrelevant to the character of Jesus and the character of Jesus is defined by the words in Bible and, therefore, the writers of the Bible. In fact the Bible is the central reason for the development of Hermeneutics. But anyway, the philosophical content of character of Jesus in the Bible is presented as apolitical. This isn't to say that Jesus Christ would never be used for political ends because, as we know, for as long as the Bible has existed it has been bent one way or another to conform to one's agenda.