im about done entertaining your bullshit but what i will say is before jesus when the judeans rallied behind a false messiah and he died that was it, donzo welp turns out he wasnt the messiah because the judeans expected a king david type warrior messiah who would lead them in war and throw off roman shackles so they were no longer a vassal state so when these types died the movements tended to dissipate "i guess he wasnt the one" jesus came not to throw off roman rule over israel but to join israel and rome together as one flock. to draw what pure sheep he had out of israel before its destruction which was fast approaching. this is inline with the person tacitus report refers to because it states he suffered the ultimate penalty under pontious pilate but that after his execution his adherents spread their beliefs not just in judea but in rome, anyone with any intelligence whatsoever will see how blatantly intellectually dishonest your argument is this is about jesus and his followers whether he called jesus christ or chrest. its the height of ignorance to pretend otherwise   > consequently, to get rid of the report, nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called chrestians by the populace. chrestus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, pontius pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in juda, the first source of the evil, but even in rome
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