re: #611 KingKenrod

Thanks for the history lesson, I find this fascinating.

Don’t Christians hate the Pharisees because they, as the legal class, were responsible for starting the legal persecution of Jesus that led to his crucifixion? That’s my Sunday school understanding.

Yes and an interesting inversion of History. The Pharisees were those hated “hippie agitators” as far as Rome was concerned. The Pharisees would certainly not be angry at someone who spoke out against corrupt priests or landowners, or the abuses of Roman tax collectors etc… Romans would not give a pharisee the time of day and Jesus was hardly the first or only Pharisee the Romans crucified.

Though the Romans were much more creatively sadistic when they murdered Akiva.

On the other hand, if the events went down as reported, Sadducees, had everything in the world to hate about someone who pointed out their corruption. Sadducees would have had the ear of a Roman governor.

What you were taught in Sunday School is 180 degrees out of phase from the realities of the times.