bobs10
Your two posts using biblical themes prompted an exegesis. You seem to be mixing Old and New Testament and Early Church History.
How about this for an analogy.
The AMD-ites (I like that better than "Droids" because it reminds me of the Hittites) were the Early Christians, huddled together in the Upper Room mourning the loss of their charismatic leader, and actually quite terrified of what the Roman Empire would do to them if they put their nose out of the door. It was not a happy place. If any of them fancied taking a walk in the market to have a look at what the Romans were up to, the bullies in the group, who were really more frightened than the others, would tongue-lash them, accusing them of being in the old Judas clique, secretly seeking to sell-out for thirty pieces of silver. So none dared to move - all huddled together waiting for the second coming (the first being 2000).
It was dark and fetid in there. The windows were barred by great Spansions. There were times when they feared they might suffocate. But one day there was a great flash of lighting of from the North Orient Region (NOR). The Spansions cracked and their new leader - a humble Mexican - broke them up and threw them through the windows. All at once the room was filled with brilliant light and pure air.
Exhilirated they burst into the market and began talking in many tongues - dollars, loonies, euros, pesos. They told stories of how they came to be in the room - vying with each to dramatise the miracle of their personal conversion and their particular steadfastness through the difficult times.
The oxygen went to their head and in their euphoria they began to act as if they already were a Church Triumphant. They mocked the Romans and refused to pay the market tithes. They began opening new installations in Mesopotamia and Greece.
The Romans were having a bit of problem in changing their Ceasars at the time. But eventually they decided on a plan. The Early Christians didn't like it one little bit. They claimed that it breached international law. The Romans replied that they were the international law.
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I'll continue later with Ampitheatres, Lions and Early Christians to be followed by How the Early Christians Learned to Suck Up to the Roman Empire and Use it Shamelessly.
AI
