re: #67 Mich-again

This is from the NT.. The “Don’t be an anti-government nutjob” passage.

early xtians of the gospel writing era were extremely concerned to represent themselves to romans as very loyal citizens who were definitely not going to make trouble. it is easy to forget that in the second half of the first century and well into the second, the jews from whom xtianity had sprung were mostly known to romans as troublemakers who had kicked the romans out and had to be reconquered in bloody campaigns not once but twice. thus the gospels go to considerable lengths to distance xtians from jews despite a certain amount of cognitive dissonance inherent in this