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Merry #ChristmasEveEve! And since Jesus is (part of) the reason for the season, here now a thread about the man and his time. Also check out our podcast about Jesus (spotify: spoti.fi/34Nuj2j, apple: apple.co/2MqzVt8) 1/5
The story takes place in a time where the rapid and brutal expansion of the Romans, and their transition from republican rule to that by god-emperors, feeds resistance and messianic longing - as shown in Monty Python's The Life Of Brian imdb.com/title/tt007947… 2/5
But the exigencies of empire are unpredictable: the niche cult of the defeated becomes its ideology, and those underdogs now have to be blamed for the deicide. The slander, dressed up in prosthetic noses, still breaks the box office 2,000 years later. imdb.com/title/tt033534… 3/5
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