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If you blame Islam for Islamist terrorism....

...blame Judaism for the Deir Yassin massacre and the bombing of the King David Hotel. ...blame Buddhism for massacres of the Rohingya. ...blame Hinduism for massacres of Muslims. ...blame Christianity for massacres of American Indians. ...blame American Indian religions for massacres by American Indians. ...blame Protestantism for the conquest of Ireland and the Great Irish Famine. ...

5. The Rebel Jesus - The Rebel Followers of the Rebel Jesus

The Bible says Jesus had a core group of twelve followers who were called apostles, a name that comes from the Greek word for messenger. The Gospels disagree on their names. The number twelve may not be meant literally—it may simply be meant to evoke the belief there were once twelve tribes of Israel—or some apostles may have been known by two names. Where "brother" is used below, it may

4. The Rebel Jesus - Before the Rebel Jesus, the Rebel John

The story of one rebel starts with the end of another, John the Baptist. His title means he baptized people, washing away their sins in a ritual bath. Mark starts his story by telling about the Baptist living in the country near the Jordan River. He wears simple clothes and eats simple food. Many people come to hear him teach and be cleansed of sin. John washes Jesus, and then Jesus goes into

3. The Rebel Jesus - The Childhood and Appearance of the Son of the Father

Matthew says when Jesus was twelve, he and his family went to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. Joseph and Mary began to go home, then realized Jesus was not with them. They spent days hunting for their missing son. They found him in the Temple courtyard, sitting with the religious teachers. The Aramaic word for father, Abba, was a common name for God. Jews still use it when they recite

2. The Rebel Jesus - Two Stories of One Birth

Matthew's Birth Story The Gospel of Matthew says the life of Jesus begins while King Herod rules Judea. In Matthew’s story, Joseph the son of Jacob lives in Judea in the town of Bethlehem. He learns his wife Mary is already pregnant when she comes to live with him. Wondering if he should send her away, he goes to sleep. When he wakes, he decides to keep her and raise the child as his own.

1. The Rebel Jesus - One Thousand Years in a Land with Many Names

You know the end of this story. The rebel goes to the city ruled by the empire’s governor. He attacks bankers. He is arrested. The rich decide he must die. The governor sentences him to the traditional death for rebels, fastened to a stake called a crux in a public place where his suffering will tell passersby what happens to those who defy the empire. How rebels die is a common story.

1. The Life of the Rebel Jesus - Introduction, One Thousand Years in a Land with Many Names

1 Introduction You know the end of this story. The rebel goes to the city ruled by the empire’s governor. He attacks bankers. He is arrested. The rich decide he must die. The governor sentences him to the traditional death for rebels, fastened to a stake called a crux in a public place where his suffering will tell passersby what happens to those who defy the empire. How rebels die is

The Rebel Jesus

The Rebel Jesus

 

You know the end of this story.
The rebel goes to the city ruled by the empire’s governor. He attacks bankers. He is arrested. The rich decide he must die. The governor sentences him to the traditional death for rebels, fastened to a stake called a crux in a public place where his suffering will tell passersby what happens to those who defy the empire.

How rebels die is a common story. I will not tell that part.
This is the story of the life of the rebel Jesus.

1. One Thousand Years...

Many of my heroes were killed by people who answered speech with violence

I wish I could go offline until people have forgotten about a coward sucker-punching a wimpy Nazi. Only a couple of hundred people knew or cared about Richard Spencer until the media decided to profit by making him famous. Now that this delusional and politically impotent man is famous, he's a convenient scapegoat for all the evils in the world, so many people are celebrating the masked person

On responding to speech with violence, or why a coward in a mask is nothing like Captain America

When I was a kid, I got beat up more than once for supporting civil rights. I say this with a mix of pride and shame, pride for speaking up, shame for being beaten. A part of me will always wish I could've beaten the racists more badly than they beat me. That's how it works in popular culture. The righteous hero soundly thrashes the bad people. That's what Captain America does. Richard Spencer