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tulipsandroses

(5,122 posts)
3. I am not a religious person, but I have no doubt that the religious right would be among the people
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 03:20 PM
Apr 2021

wanting to crucify Jesus. He's a radical socialist by their standards.

Wounded Bear

(58,605 posts)
5. It was the religious leaders of the day who insisted he be crucified...
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 03:31 PM
Apr 2021

The civil authority, Pilate, wanted him spared because he knew it would make Jesus a martyr.



(Well, based on the Biblical "record" that is )

Brother Buzz

(36,388 posts)
8. Pontius Pilate explained everything in his 'Tell all' book written in exile at his villa in Spain
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 03:48 PM
Apr 2021

Pontius Pilate had the smarts to get out of Dodge City before the smoke cleared

Interestingly enough, Edmund G "Pat" Brown wrote the forward

Kittycatkat

(1,356 posts)
10. If Jesus came to America today how would the "religious" right greet him?
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 04:02 PM
Apr 2021

Well let's see: 1. He dresses like an A-rab so there's that. 2. He would be considered one of the "great unwashed" whining about injustice. 3. All of his friends are men, except Mary Magdalene and she had been a prostitute. 4. He would not be white. Methinks history would repeat itself and he would once again be put to death.

RVN VET71

(2,689 posts)
17. And his mother, Little Mary
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 07:32 PM
Apr 2021

14 years old, pregnant before getting married, with a child fathered by a man other than her husband!

As for JC, himself, I doubt he'd be put to death, but he’d probably just be considered an eccentric carpenter, a bastard jew, with little education who talked about love and peace like a lot of other hippies.

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