It had little to do with Christians. Where did you get that information regarding the bar khoba revolt?? You are of course entitled to your own opinon. But to state that the most logical conclusion to explain the absence of Jews (if that is the case), is that they converted to Christians? How on earth is that a logical conclusion?
I’m not sure I buy these arguments but it is the relevant issue here. We are, after all, discussiong the gray line between Judaism and Christianity (with Messianic Judaism falling in between somewhere).
The irony is that Hitler is among those 20th century figures who explicitly rejected Christian ethics in favor of more scientific views (e.g. Darwin and Nitchez).
Here are two books I recommend on this topic: Jerusalem and Rome and Akiba’s Messiah.
I own and have read both of those books.
Nietzsche was first a poet, then he was considered a philosopher after having written Thus said Zarathustra (in German: Also sprach Zarathustra)
Perhaps I should have put scientific in quotes. But there was a mileu of thought that combined Darwin and Nietzche (and others) into a cocktail of modernism that, on the surface at least, appeard to be more scientific than traditional Christian ethics. Nietzshe’s views were certainly part of that regardless of the fact that he was, in no sense, a formal scientist. Remeber that Marxism was also considered scientific in its heyday.
You’re right, and there still is such a milieu nowadays.
The evidence for this would be what, exactly?
The evidence for this would be what, exactly? And for all the rest of the conjectures?
Or not, as the case may be. Now, if I were to suggest that the real tragedy was that the Romans didn’t breed enough lions, I wonder what the Christian response might be?
This is, I think, the most pertinent point. For whatever historical reasons, Judaism and Chrstianity went there seperate ways and for roughly 2000 years Jewish meant not a follower of Jesus in any way, shape, or form.
Luckily for you, anti-Christianism is not a thought crime.
It’s important to distinguish the varoius points in time (and to allow for the fact that we really don’t know with any reliability). But, generally speaking, we can look at Jesus’ popularity during his lifetime, between his resurrection and the destruction of Jerusalem, and thereafter.
I’d have thought that my use of the subjunctive might have suggested the nature and purpose of what I was saying.
There are tons of books, and I’ve read several. Although there are all sorts of variations of theology, the most interesting claim that Messianic Jews put forward was that the apostles and early Jewish disciples kept the Torah and that the de-Judaism of Christianity occured later (some blaming the old scapegoat, Constantine).
