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“And if you’re a smart person, and you take the time to think about it, the religious messages often double up into political messages, and at that time in old Israel … religion and politics were basically one and the same thing, not least because there was no vote. ‘When a man has no vote, no say, but he does have a national religion to adhere to, then of course he’ll want to reform the religious practises since that is the political system that he’s under at the time.”
― Roskov, Book 12
― Roskov, Book 12
“But in the time of Jesus there was no political path to power, which is why the Canaanites rebelled and destroyed their kings and temples, and became hill farmers which became the Jewish tribes. ‘This bloke, Jesus, followed on with a new religion which was also a rebellion,”
― Roskov, Book 12
― Roskov, Book 12
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