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user-inactivated  ·  2221 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You’re going to die eventually, why not now?

    Jesus was NOT the soft-spoken, wouldn’t-harm-a-flea guy the culture makes Him out to be.

    It depends on translation.

Others have explored the idea before him, and I'm sure others will explore it after him, but Reza Aslan's book Zealot looks into this idea. I haven't read the book, and I'm not really intrigued enough by the idea to want to read the book, but it's there and people seem to enjoy it.