>"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
What did Jesus mean by this?
Christianity is controversial and would tear people apart. Many would die for their beliefs, and many would be damned for their actions.
>>3164513
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>>3164505
that he's going to destroy Rome from within and turned something that should have been the one global superpower by now into a bunch of bickering children who are currently getting wiped out without firing a shot
>>3164505
Is Jesus the greatest cause of suffering ever caused by one man?
>>3164525
If we're going to use "influential" as a byword for "cause of suffering" I'd say the guy who started agriculture was worse.
>>3164539
Nah, the first toolmaker is clearly worse.
>>3164505
Jesus isn't the hippie all-the-time-smiling faggot that most people think. I bet if he came in this year lots of people would think he's some zealot bearded guy.
>>3164505
>Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_peace,_but_a_sword
>>3164513
This, it's obvious when you actually read the NT.
>>3164505
"I'm so radical; y'all can't deal"
>>3164525
>Is Jesus the greatest cause of suffering ever caused by one man?
Fractal solitons of improbability will do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-33CuV5jo
He clearly destroyed the Roman world. His prole krypto kike followers that is.