db> keep public order.  I doubt that Pontius Pilot ever gave Jesus a
db> second thought; as you suggest, rabble rousers were all over the
db> place, as Pliny makes pretty clear.
That was my take on the Christian bible's story as well.  The Jesus
wasn't anything the Romans or the Jews hadn't seen a hundred times before.
What do you think about the times that Paul/Saul, the Terrorist of
Tarsus, denied publically that he was in fact from Tarsus?  I can't help
but wonder if he was embarrassed by the Mithra religion that he grew up
in.
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