Re: [Marxism] Barack Obama, where art though (OPEN LETTER)

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 14, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote:
>
> ...Did the followers of Jesus in 1st century Galilee constitute a
> movement? They followed Jesus (a non-political religious figure)
> around the country, too...

Bad analogy.  Jesus and John, claimants respectively to kingship and  
high priesthood, were totally political figures (and the crowds  
gathered around John, the first to be executed, were even bigger than  
those around Jesus according to the surviving accounts).

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos




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