Blackrook
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How did a bunch of fishermen and a tax collector fool the world into thinking there was a man named Jesus, who they met, followed, watched performing miracles, and saw walking about and eating fish after he died on a cross?
Perhaps these simple men would not have succeeded in their grand design, had they not been joined by Saul of Tarsus, who changed his name to Paul after falsely claiming to see Jesus on the road to Damascus.
Paul was a very clever man, and if anyone could invent a religion out of whole cloth, he could. His writings are still studied today, and considered to be the work of a genius.
Unfortunately for Paul, his grand scheme to fool the world into believing in Jesus did not make him rich and famous. Instead, he was arrested by Roman authorities, put on trial, and beheaded.
Ten of the men who started the whole scheme met the same fate, all dying gruesome deaths rather than admitting it was all a con job.
But the followers of the original men who started the conspiracy continued working to fool the world into believing in their false religion, and then finally the Emperor Constantine was fooled and the whole Roman Empire converted.
Anyway, that's the theory.
Perhaps these simple men would not have succeeded in their grand design, had they not been joined by Saul of Tarsus, who changed his name to Paul after falsely claiming to see Jesus on the road to Damascus.
Paul was a very clever man, and if anyone could invent a religion out of whole cloth, he could. His writings are still studied today, and considered to be the work of a genius.
Unfortunately for Paul, his grand scheme to fool the world into believing in Jesus did not make him rich and famous. Instead, he was arrested by Roman authorities, put on trial, and beheaded.
Ten of the men who started the whole scheme met the same fate, all dying gruesome deaths rather than admitting it was all a con job.
But the followers of the original men who started the conspiracy continued working to fool the world into believing in their false religion, and then finally the Emperor Constantine was fooled and the whole Roman Empire converted.
Anyway, that's the theory.