@doctorsex @Terry @matty @PeterPower @Wolffkran THEN AFTER A COUPLE FALSE MESSIAS AND REVOLTS, HERODS TEMPLE GETS FUCKIN LEVELLED
GENERAL TITUS FAMOUSLY CONSIDERED HIS ACTIONS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DIVINE JUSTICE

NOW JESUS HAD WARNED THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN AND CHRISTIANS STAYED SAFELY AWAY FROM THE BLAST RADIUS
HEBREW CHRISTIANS WHO HAD UP TO THAT POINT CONTINUED TO UPHOLD THE WORKS OF THE LAW AND WORSHIPPING AT THE TEMPLE, HAD STOPPED, AND THEIR IDENTITY SIMPLY DISAPPEARED INTO THE BROADER GENTILE CONVERT BODY OF THE CHURCH
THE SERVICES OF THE EARLY CHURCH WERE EFFECTIVELY THE SYNAGOGUE SERVICE STAPLED TO A TEMPLE SACRIFICE SERVICE WITH THE EUCHARIST REPLACING THE ANIMAL OR GRAIN OR BREAD OFFERINGS, AND THE ENTIRE PARISH OF CHRISTIANS REPLACING THE LEVITES WITH THE BISHOP REPLACING THE HIGH PRIEST

AND THATS BASICALLY OUR FORM OF WORSHIP TO THIS DAY, UNDER ALL THE LAYERS OF CULTURAL ADAPTATION YOU WILL FIND THAT SAME FRAMEWORK IN PRETTY MUCH ALL CHRISTIAN COMMUNIONS
EVEN MODERN PARISH PRIESTS ARE JUST PRESBYTERS DEPUTIZED TO DO SERVICES BY THEIR BISHOP

SADDUCEES OBVIOUSLY JUST DISAPPEAR, THEIR POWER WAS WITH THE TEMPLE

SAMARITANS THAT DONT EVENTUALLY CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY JUST STAY IN SAMARIA AND ARE LARGELY UNAFFECTED.
THERE'S DOZENS OF THEM OUT THERE, DOZENS!

PHARISEES WERE ALREADY NOT ON BOARD WITH HERODS TEMPLE SO THIS IS NOTHING TO THEM
EXCEPT THAT THE CHRISTIANS ARE GOING GANGBUSTERS EXPLAINING WHY THIS ALL HAPPENED
SO THEY GET TOGETHER AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHY THIS HAPPENED ASSUMING THE CHRISTIANS ARE OF COURSE WRONG
WHAT THEY COME UP WITH IS THAT
1. THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH UNITY
AND
2. THERE WAS SUCH DIVERGENCE IN OPINION BECAUSE THERE WAS TOO MUCH INTELLECTUALISM AND WRITING
3. IF CHRISTIANS ARE RIGHT, THEN THE HEBREWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ARE EFFECTIVELY OBSOLETE AND DO NOT EXIST AS A PEOPLE. THEIR IDENTITY WAS ALWAYS MARKED OUT AROUND THEIR FAITHFULNESS TO GOD. IF GOD WANTS THEM TO DISAPPEAR THEN THAT JUST CAN'T BE SO

THE POLICIES RESULTING FROM THIS ARE
1. CHRISTIANS ARE WRONG AND THEREFORE PAST THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT THAT APPEARS TO AGREE WITH THE CONCLUSIONS OF CHRISTIANS IS HERETICAL OR MUST BE REINTERPRETED, REJIGGED, OR FANFIC'D ON TOP OF TO MAKE IT NOT AGREE WITH THE CHRISTIANS
2. BAN ON WRITING
NO MORE BOOKS NO MORE READING
ORAL TRADITION ONLY
CASTE OF PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THE REINTERPRETING, THE REST MUST SIMPLY AGREE

ESSENTIALLY THEY CHOSE THE PERPETUATION OF THEIR RACE, WHICH WAS INTENDED FROM THE START AS A SERVITOR RACE THAT WOULD LEAD ALL THE REAL NATIONS BACK TO THE WELLSPRING AND THEN MELD INTO THEM, OF AN EXCLUSIVE GROUP IDENTITY, AGAINST THE TRUTH AND AGAINST THEIR OLD CULTURE
THEY PUT THEIR RACE ABOVE GOD AND OVER TIME IN THEIR CREATING A NEW CULTURE FOR THEMSELVES THEY PUT THEIR RACE IN EVERY PLACE GOD USED TO OCCUPY