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TheCloudFestival t1_j9pkfps wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that in 1554 Elizabeth Crofts hid in a wall on Aldersgate Street, where she pretended to be a heavenly voice. Reputedly 17,000 people came to listen to her give out anti-Catholic propaganda. by Kurma-the-Turtle

I've always thought of Jesus as an amalgam of several Jesuses walking around and preaching at the time (Jesus being a very common name in those days), who used elements of magic and showmanship to beef up their Post-Apocalyptic Judaism doctrine. Those preachers certainly didn't invent the Post-Apocalyptic Jewish doctrine, but they did enthusiastically spread it. They were more like the flashy megachurch pastors of their day.

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Spirckle t1_j9qjx2l wrote

> Post-Apocalyptic

It would have been pre-apocalyptic. Or just apocalyptic. People of that time thought that the apocalypse was yet to come. The closest thing they experienced to an apocalypse was the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD.

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TheCloudFestival t1_j9qmefd wrote

It's just another term for Messianic Judaism. I don't really understand it either, but it's one of the ways of referring to them nonetheless.

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Sigg3net t1_j9qtam3 wrote

Jesus wasn't a common name, it's the Roman misspelling/latinized version of Joshua, isn't it?

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TheCloudFestival t1_j9qyof2 wrote

Yeah, Joshua was a pretty common name back then, what with being an Old Testament patriarch and such.

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OldKingCanary t1_j9rho4x wrote

There's a lot of hints that he was also inspired by the local Buddhist "missionaries" (not really but kinda cultural ones) that had been sent by King Asoka a bit over as hundred years before he lived. They were cultural ambassadors in a way.

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