re: #522 LudwigVanQuixote

As I wrote above, and this is not to appease you but rather to prevent you recasting something you were not involved in - and how dare you lecture me on my own People’s history, you do not know anything - the revolt was not because of a messianic fervor that spread through the people of Judah while the Romans were offering good jobs and fine meals as the post implied.

In fact, let’s look at the offensive passage one more time:

The revolt was the result of decades of Roman strangulation of the economy, Roman desecration of the Jewish way of life, the institution of chattel slavery, corrupt Roman courts and the general brutality of the Roman occupation.

To cast it all as a vague and irrational fit of religious extremism is utterly offensive.

For you to dare to take the stand you are is utterly offensive.

Walter, you are permanently on the shit list. You are useless and pathetic swine. Any other magical balance faries out there want to chime in that is fine, but you are not going to cast the terrible struggle that lost the Homeland for 2000 years as some cheap debate point on a web thread and you certainly don’t get to try to sound superior when you do it.

No one called it a “vague and irrational fit of religious extremism is utterly offensive.” Please show me who said that? And nothing in that paragraph above was incorrect. The Raomans were everything you say they were, no one that know anything about that era would deabte that (and no one has anywhere on this thread). But the fact remains, the Jewish people wanted “a chance at a good job, food on the table, nice home and the ability to live their life” no more or less than any group of people do.

B it was DEFINITELY Jewish religious zealots (where do you think we get the name “Zealot”) that insisted in waging a holy war back against the Romans, a 4 year battle which no one would expect them to win, and they didn’t.

There were many religious and political factions in the Jewish community at that time who were opposed to fighting the Romans, and were satisfied with accepting Pax Romana.

That’s the facts, jack.

Your whole arguement is a permanent shit list… thank you for a place of honor on it.