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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @04:34PM (2 children)
Trump > Caesar
Reagan > Pompey
Antonius > Pence
Junius > Mccaine
Cleopatra > Melania
Rome > DC
Etc.
Caesar > Jesus
Pompey > John (the Baptist)
Antonius > Simon
Lepidus > Peter
(Decimus) Junius (Brutus) > Judas
(Marcus Junius) Brutus > Barabbas
Octavianus (Augustus) > John (the disciple)
Nicomedes of Bithynia > Nicodemus of Bethania
Cleopatra > (Mary) Magdalene
Julia (widow of Marius) > Mary
The Senate > The Sanhedrin
Gaul > Galilee
Rubicon > Jordan
Corfinium > Cafarnaum
Rome > Jerusalem
etc.
https://www.carotta.de/subseite/texte/esumma.html [carotta.de]
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday December 19 2019, @05:31PM (1 child)
Interesting point. Consider what cults may arise, say, five hundred years hence.
BTW the cited book itself is opensource, and can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/jesuswascaesar.onthejulianoriginofchristianityaninvestigativereport [archive.org]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @05:35PM
Thanks for the book.