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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" By Reza Aslan.

Aslan, who is from a Muslim family but became born again as a teenager, then abandoned evangelical Christianity has thought long and hard about the history of Christianity.

He argues that Jesus was as much a political leader as a spiritual one. Christ, according to Aslan, fought a two-pronged battle against Roman rule and the corruption of the Jewish rabbinical classes.

He also delves into the really interesting differences between Paul and the rest of the apostles.

I do take issue with the original proposition above "I know that before Christ people were looking at Judiasm as option."

Not enough space on the Internet to explain how naïve that statement is.[/quote]

Lots of people take issue with the way Aslan reduces Christ to a political leader. It's possible to see some Christ's appeal in that, but for Christians the story is Christ's message. Once Constantine sanctioned Christianity in the 300s, the "rebel" argument loses meaning. Anyway, Jesus' message wasn't about the material world; it was about giving away your worldly goods and "rendering unto Caesar," not about seizing power for himself or his followers. [/quote]

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