Just in time for Pesach!

[sabotabby]

The Truthers have let my people off the hook. We might have killed Christ, but apparently we didn't do 9/11.

To my more observant friends: Enjoy your matzoh!

Comments

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

And, I thought the Romans killed Christ.

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Quick clarification: if you're a Christian in the century or so after the death of Jesus who wants to survive and practice Christianity, you really don't want to say that the Romans killed Jesus. To the Romans, Jesus was a man in the process of instigating a revolution. That was (and generally remains) a capital crime. And if you're a Christian, you're running around saying "Jesus was right and he was a god!" Romans do not take kindly to this. Romans also run your world. The reason that Pontius Pilate gets portrayed in such a dramatically ahistorical way in the Gospels (dude was a jerk) is basically that the writers had to come up with a version of the narrative that provided a reason for Jesus to die other than that he was a revolutionary. Jesus had to be portrayed such that the story would not make them the fundamentalist terrorists of their day. Mixed success on that front.