>>17867769 (OP)
Because Jews love revolutions
Jews spent all of their recorded history revolting against God leading to Christians like Moses wanting to abandon them
>>17867769 (OP)
Jews... >get destroyed >temple destroyed >identity usurped by true Israel
Yet they still claim this is winning as if that isn't the dumbest shit to claim.
Jewish culture and identity was incompatible with Roman society. Jews were forbidden to make sacrifices to any gods other than Yahweh, they were required to only eat foods prepared in certain ways, and many other specific things which kept them from assimilating to Roman culture. The Romans generally had a tolerant attitude toward foreign religions, but to assimilate the Jews they would have had to have aggressively stamped out Yahweh worship. They did not realize how pernicious Judaism was, how it was incompatible with any other religious belief. If they had realized how dangerous it was they might have tried harder to stamp it out from the start.
>Challenged the might of Rome
I mean, they did do a big chimp out, slaughtered a lot of Romans during the initial uprising. But then the legions came and the hammer came down hard. Jews literally never recovered from the imperial wrath that descended on them for this chimp out. Rabbis spent centuries coping and reforming their religion afterward, and as a result modern Judaism caries permanent scars from the destruction of the Second Temple.
>>17869325 >They did not realize how pernicious Judaism was, how it was incompatible with any other religious belief.
They actually did, they thought the Jews were a little weird, but they also afforded them special exemptions.
>>17869325
I reckon the Empire had many other minorities like this but we only pay more attention to Judaism due to Christianity's prominence and therefore making everyone obsessed with anything Abrahamic.
>>17867769 (OP)
God, Israel, etc. Not wanting to be ruled by foreigners, not wanting your culture destroyed by a homogenizing internationalist force. Those types of things. >>17869340
The second Temple had been destroyed 50 years earlier you massive dunce.
Also requiring nine legions (more than some romano persian wars) to put down an uprising is by definition challenging the might of rome.
>>17867769 (OP) >favorite twink dies >be bored and horny >kikes chimp out over some dumb shit >you have a bunch of pend up libido so you chimp out ourself and deal with those pests for good
>>17867769 (OP)
It was a Parthian proxy war. >The Parthians, terrified after having their capital sacked a decade earlier by Trajan, are more than willing to destabilize the region >A wealthy Jewish diaspora in Babylonia with a grudge after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and that had just witnessed the Romans steamroll their province able to bankroll and finance such a revolt >Simon Bar Kokhba is well versed in the scriptures, Jewish law, military and political strategy as well as being backed by the priests and rabbis as a legitimate Davidic Messiah. >Entire cadre of elite able to coordinate mere peasants to wage war for four years against the Romans and establish a parallel bureaucracy to mint coins and run the country >Nabatean coin hoards found in rebel caves to pay for the smuggling of goods back and forth between the Syrian Desert >Analyses of hobnails and heavy spears show metallurgy techniques not used in the Eastern Mediterranean >Weaponry has an ambiguous form, implying that those who designed it either had no experience from forging Roman weaponry or didn't want to trace its creation back to Mesopotamia >Cassius Dio even admits that foreign nations were involved in the revolt
There's a reason why Hadrian was so harsh, and it's because Judea acted as a flashpoint for the destruction of Roman authority in the Eastern Mediterranean. That region is the artery between Egypt and Syria, cut that off and you're in for a world of trouble. The war was so bad that he didn't even write the famous greeting: >Therefore Hadrian in writing to the senate did not employ the opening phrase commonly affected by the emperors, "If you and our children are in health, it is well; I and the legions are in health."
>>17869859
Fucking fire-fuckers irreversibly changed the history of the Jewish fate. Basically killed the idea of a violent Messianic revolt.
Mist Messiah claimant afterward were larpers and Trust the plan nonsense like Sabbatai Zevi.
>>17867769 (OP)
Doubling and tripling down, getting BTFO'd for it, and then having Russian goyim taking pictures in front of the Arch of Titus with their passport 2000 years later as proof the Jews are still alive and well lol. I didn't realize how salty the kikes were about Roma Invicta until I started looking thru yidder.
>>17867769 (OP)
What is interesting is that Israel was temporary reformed in the 3rd century, even if for less than a handful of years at most, well before the 20th century Israel restoration. Do Christian theologians ever discuss this temporary return of Israel during the 100s, or is the 1948 return of the country Israel something that much more important? If Christians are supposed to support Israel, did the early church try to support Bar Kokhba and his short-lived Judea/Israel state? What were reactions at the time?