And while I'm commenting, I have to nit pick your Christmas story a bit. Rebels didn't hide the child, his parents hid him, but they didn't have to hid him very hard, after Herod slew the children of Bethlehem, he stopped looking, and nobody else even noticed his existance until he started teaching at the age of 33.
And the Romans did perform the execution, but they didn't hold the trial, the Jewish Sanhedrin held the trial. . Pilate, the Roman ruler, only got involved because the Jews weren't allowed to hold their own executions, and he wanted to let Christ go, but he let the Jewish leadership pressure him into having Christ executed. Rome didn't fear Christ, they hardly knew who he was. The Jewish leaderhip feared him, they were the ones having their traditional religious authority undermined by his new interpretations of the Law.
I think you've watched The Life Of Brian a few times too many. Christ was never any kind of political revolutionary, he quite clearly said that his kingdom was not of this world. (He said it to Pilate, even.) Some of his followers no doubt hoped he would be a political savior, but he never taught anything to do with politics. He healed Romans as well as Jews, and the only time he taught on a subject related to the Roman occupation of Israel, he supported the Roman's taxes, and said to render unto Ceasar the things which are Ceasar's.
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And the Romans did perform the execution, but they didn't hold the trial, the Jewish Sanhedrin held the trial. . Pilate, the Roman ruler, only got involved because the Jews weren't allowed to hold their own executions, and he wanted to let Christ go, but he let the Jewish leadership pressure him into having Christ executed. Rome didn't fear Christ, they hardly knew who he was. The Jewish leaderhip feared him, they were the ones having their traditional religious authority undermined by his new interpretations of the Law.
I think you've watched The Life Of Brian a few times too many. Christ was never any kind of political revolutionary, he quite clearly said that his kingdom was not of this world. (He said it to Pilate, even.) Some of his followers no doubt hoped he would be a political savior, but he never taught anything to do with politics. He healed Romans as well as Jews, and the only time he taught on a subject related to the Roman occupation of Israel, he supported the Roman's taxes, and said to render unto Ceasar the things which are Ceasar's.