what Paul DID do is advocate NOT engaging in circumcision and -----not washing hands-----making it very easy to identify
jews. He set the table for Constantine and the children of
Constantine---- to wit----genocidal catholics like whore Isabella and adolf and the various popes that presided over church mediated genocide-------and Muhummad who adopted the
some of the canon laws which mandated, easy identification of jews into "shariah" law. Muhummad retained
circumcision and to some extent hand washing----but he adopted ----quite specifically-----mandatory yellow marking and the all important ban on weapons and even ban on riding horses. Some of the very same laws ----found their way into the Nuremburg laws. Thus PAUL---probably unwittingly---initiated the feasibility of religious authority mediated genocide
thru methods of convenient ID. Identification is very important in conducting selective genocide. and selective
oppression and exploitation. Constantine did the poll tax thing---which became Jizya in shariah law and was more or less imposed in catholic countries-----and pillage and confiscation in the Nuremburg laws.
I see no reason to blame Paul for what happened centuries after he lived. Nor should Constantine be blamed for Hitler, and nor is the Catholics faith responsible for all the lost lives. I'm teaching science this week, and one of the tenets we are emphasizing is that when there are multiple variables in play, no one should assign the outcome to a single variable.
We also should be aware of questions/assumptions that cannot possibly be answered or proven. For example, we cannot assume that life would have been better (or worse) without Paul.
When we look at scholarly, historical studies, we see that democide (death traced directly to government not religion) is responsible for so much tragic killing--and much of that was done by atheist or non-theistic governments. We follow that line of study even further, and it is evident that hunter/gatherer/farming/agriculture/undeveloped cultures have more killing than urban and developed countries.
Almost to an individual, each one of us comes from a background that has been hated and discriminated against sometime in its past--and I'm speaking recent past. The Irish were considered beneath contempt, worse than chimps, and Irish Catholics were at the bottom of that heap.
The question should be, has society evolved since those days? While some of my Irish and/or Catholic ancestors were treated abominably, that is not happening to me. Some of my Quaker ancestors were also whipped and mistreated--but that does not happen to me today. My Protestant ancestors fought my Catholic ancestors, yet we live in peace today. None of this is the fault--or due to the merit--of Paul. Any fault/merit rests solely on the people involved in that particular event in that particular time period.