Challenger
Gold Member
Jerusalem cult? Ha ha ha Gawd are you morons funny or what. Looks like you failed in history as well. Judea was under Roman occupation, and Judaism, the first monotheistic religion happened to be older than the pagan Romans. What an ignorant idiot!Oh Israel was and is real for sure. Here is a carving on the Arch of Titus showing Roman soldiers looting the valuables of the temple in Israel after it's destruction. This structure is open to all who visit Rome and the ruins of the Forum and Colosseum. Titus brought back 50,000 Hebrew slaves, who built the Colosseum. The rest stayed back and some fled to neighboring lands. The Colosseum was actually built with the spoils from the destroyed temple in Jerusalem. All the marble from the colosseum was then taken out and the Vatican was built with it. True story
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Nope. There was a rebellion by Jewish citizens of the Hellenised Roman province of Iudaea or Judea , mainly due to taxation, in 66CE. This spiralled out of control into a full scale rebellion during which the Temple of the Jerusalem cult in Judea was destroyed. Judaism was just one of many religious cults in Roman Judea at the time. The Kingdom of Israel (if it ever existed, the jury is still out on that) was defunct centuries before.
*sigh* Point out to me please where I stated Judea was not part of the Roman Empire.
Interesting to note also that there are indications that Judean religion was not montheistic, at least to start with, but had a pantheon like other religions. The Yaweh monotheist cult was dominant in Jerusalem certainly, but elsewhere that wasn't the case. There are in fact three contenders for the title of the first monotheistic religion; Atenism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism.

