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>Sanhedrin, ??AD
>hey Moshe
>yes, Shmuel?
>I have an idea for a new religion to control the goyim
>go on
>we’ll make up this guy, right? He’s some itinerant hobo wandering around Judea preaching and gathering followers and we’re opposed to him every step of the way because we don’t think he’s following our laws the right way
>uhh
>eventually he gets us angry enough that we yell at Rome until they throw him up on a crucifix and the whole time we’ll look like unhinged lunatics that don’t understand the first thing about our own beliefs
>Moshe this doesn’t sound like a good idea
>but wait it gets better. See, he’s also fulfilled every single prophecy we have about Moshiach, and after we convince Rome to station a guard outside his tomb he comes back to life, which to his followers proves every claim he made about himself
>…
>and as an added bonus we’ll make sure his followers worship him as Adonai and starting now until the end of time they will treat us as though we’ve literally murdered God in the flesh and are a cursed people destined for Super Sheol (they’re calling it the “lake of fire”, it’s like that trash ravine outside the city but it lasts forever)
>oy gevalt Moshe what are you smoking
>but where this plan really comes together, my dear Shmuel, is that 1800 years from now in a land we have no knowledge of speaking a language that doesn’t exist yet somebody will use this religion to promote ideas that it actually forbids explicitly and only then will we truly take over the world
>oh, Moshe, that’s brilliant! You had me in the first part but this is a flawless plan
