It really does!
Posted on 09/21/2013 10:14:52 AM PDT by rhema
I took a New Testament course at Baylor University. We were taught about the “historical” Jesus which used history to prove His human existence. I don’t remember Him being killed over taxes.
If Bill would read the Bible instead of books written by someone else but has his name on them, he’d see that Jesus was very clear that one should pay his taxes to Caesar. Maybe Bill’s priest was one of those who said “Don’t read the Bible. I’ll tell you what’s in it.” They do exist.
-PJ
Naa. O'Reilly is a self-taught idiot. Don't blame the Jesuits.
BOR is not a Christian. He displays his ignorance about Christianity every time he opens his mouth about religion. He bloviates about Jesus just like he bloviates about everything else. There is actually a more accurate “B” word for what he says. Something about a bull and his xcrement.
I suppose not living at home anymore, he hasn’t got his wife to depend on for his meds!
LOL!
It’s pretty clear from the gospels that the Jewish leaders sold the crucifixion of Jesus to Pilate as necessary to keep a fledgling movement with a self-styled king from gaining a foothold. That, too, is a view that can be supported by just about every early Christian and non-Christian source I can think of. That was the jist of “ “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” “
Is it possible by some stretch of the case to say that Rome didn’t like their governance getting overthrown by usurper kings for a variety of reasons, one of them being because Rome was barely thriving on the tax money they got from the provinces?
It’s possible, but there’s no way to make that a primary or even a secondary reason for Jesus’ death, since Pilate seems determined to free Jesus. Tertiary? I imagine Pilate was thinking more along the lines of “Rome’s gonna be a pain in the butt over these people complaining about this Jewish preacher.”
Even the Apostle Paul, who went to Rome on charges, had preached clearly that Christians were to pay their taxes.
Dog. Bark. Wrong tree.
Yeah, I'm going to be here all week.
(With BOR one never knows....)
Any time I’ver ever heard O’Blowhard talk about Christianity, I could tell how ignorant he is on the subject. I’ve not read any of the books he has allegedly written because I probably know much more about the subjects than he.
It really does!
O’Reilly IS god, don’t you know that? Therefore, as god, he knows exactly why Jesus was killed, and obviously that was because of taxes. Don’t question god.
I haven’t read it, but I do remember Matthew the tax collector, and tax collectors got a percentage of the taxes they collected for the Romans. And Jesus did say “render unto Caesar that which is Caeser’s”—wars have been started over taxes. I don’t think it’s blasphemy in any case to discuss this about the time of Christ.
Bill seems to be the kind of guy who exaggerates in a "nothing but" kind of way, leaving out the details to give what he thinks is the essence of the story, and what he thinks is the "essence" of the story may be the hook -- the thing that starts people talking -- not what the story actually boils down to.
BOR stepped into it this time. He should have written Killing McKindley or Killing Napoleon or even Killing Breitbard—But Not Jesus. Reminds me of the day when the Beatles said they were more popular than Jesus and all the trouble that got them into.
His priest needs to have a loooong talk with that boy.
He sure did.
“How can a Catholic not understand Jesus’ death.?<<
How can they not understand who Jesus is?
God’s Chosen One, One with God the Father, second person of the Holy Trinity, one and only necessary and sufficient divine mediator of the ineffable mercies of the Godhead.
Yet deeming it necessary to invent an hierarchy, an imperium complete with a supreme prelate and an array of lesser princes, modeled after the monarchies devised by man to impose order on human societies, placed between man and God as an agency of mediation, Christ apparently not quite up to the job.
Some scholars believe that Roman soldiers were converted in such great numbers that they were largely responsible for the spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.
And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the multitudes: I find no cause in this man.
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