> how would you categorize the politics of the bible? ot: total enslavement thru lies and evil nt: reform attempt thru truth and light, quickly subverted though the word remains buried within. the politics were of a demoralized population, subjects to a foreign army and a corrupt religious class and a local tyrant family. you would not recognize this world, but it was as powerless for the average person as it gets. the bullshit sacrifice system painted the streets red with blood and forced people to paid their priest to kill an animal to appease god and reset their sin counter. you were shit out of luck to rise through the local tribal hierarchy, and still subject to a murderous herod family, and still at the mercy of every single roman solider and leader. you can sort of see why god intervened, the evil had taken root and it would take thousands of years to undo or a messiah to reshuffle the deck and have it done within 300 years and carry onward across the globe so it never happened again, no more animal and human sacrifices due to one event and one unique person. the upside down kingdom indeed.
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