Well there you are Richard, Jerry, donning his Wikipedia-legion centurion uniform and brandishing its standard boar-standard
, attacks and falls into the Wikipedia trap when I still hadn't yet set it up properly!

No answer is possible if one does not get the facts straight first - as with the "arrogant presumption" of uncritically accepting and believing Einstein's relativity, or in this case, Wikipedia!
But Jerry continues:
Hence as I wrote above: Julius "Caesar's assassination provoked massive civil war, hence Augustus' need to divinize JC." Jerry misses his target here because of Wikipedia's misrepresentation of the situation.
There is a common Christian prejudice that Publius Quinctilius Varus was governor of Syria for only 4 years - and Wikipedia is glad to peddle it too. Why?
Because Herod the Great died in 4 BC - hence JC was born before he died in order to "prove" Herod's massacre of the innocents (Matthew Gospel). But in Luke we find Joseph and Mary having to be census-registered in Syria under Quirinius (Cyrenius), about the time Baby Jesus was born. The problem is: Cyrenius was only appointed in 6AD. If however, one could pretend his governorship extends back to 4BC (like the Wikipedia oligarchs do), then one can have Herod the Great killing the innocents while Quirinius has just begun his reign - which is what the Wikipedia BS slyly hints at, after revealing Varus' original governorship of Africa.
However, when you read Josephus it is clear that before the appointment of Quirinius (Cyrenaeus) in 6AD (Antiquities 18:1 - references below are to this work), Varus had to deal with the extended Jewish uprisings for the 10 years following the death of Herod the Great, and the appointment of the latter's son as successor, Archelaus ben Herod, who was unable to control them. There was no "gap without a governor" between 4BC and 6AD, only a gap filled with Christian-Wikipedian deceit, all ready for the unwary to topple into! See Josephus 17:8 but especially 17:9:1 to 17:13:5 where the extended battle against Judas ben Hezekiah (head of the bandits), Simon the ex-slave (prototype of Peter) and Athronges takes place and where Varus is present during the invasion of Samaria to put these rebels down (17:10:9)!
IOW this obscurantism by standard Wikipedophilic-Christianity (or Christolatric Wikipediism) has obscured the intimate connection between the increased Roman desire for a great transcendent leader in the shoes of Julius Ceasar due to Rome's utter failure, primarily from Varus' incompetence, at the Battle of Teutoberg, since it was that battle that secured German freedom from invasion by Rome and the end of Julius Caesar's dream of conquering Europe and thus the barbarians once and for all. What has not been seen until now is the intimate connection between the Varian disaster (9 AD) and the initiation of the Jesus Christ cult, particularly after Augustus' death some years later!
Yours faithfully
Claude
Publius Quictilius Varus generally gets the blame for the fiasco at Teutoberg Forest. Before that, he had been the governor of Syria from 7 BC until 4 BC, where he was notorious for his cruelty. So that's the answer... but what was the question again?
But Jerry continues:
The Christianization of Germany is a later question; the question at issue is the creation and acceptance of Christianity in the Roman Empire.Somehow, even though the Romans "never again attempted to conquer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine River" after the great defeat at Teutoberg, nevertheless those Germanic tribes wound up becoming Christian. How did that happen? Is that part of the question... or the answer...?
Hence as I wrote above: Julius "Caesar's assassination provoked massive civil war, hence Augustus' need to divinize JC." Jerry misses his target here because of Wikipedia's misrepresentation of the situation.
There is a common Christian prejudice that Publius Quinctilius Varus was governor of Syria for only 4 years - and Wikipedia is glad to peddle it too. Why?
Because Herod the Great died in 4 BC - hence JC was born before he died in order to "prove" Herod's massacre of the innocents (Matthew Gospel). But in Luke we find Joseph and Mary having to be census-registered in Syria under Quirinius (Cyrenius), about the time Baby Jesus was born. The problem is: Cyrenius was only appointed in 6AD. If however, one could pretend his governorship extends back to 4BC (like the Wikipedia oligarchs do), then one can have Herod the Great killing the innocents while Quirinius has just begun his reign - which is what the Wikipedia BS slyly hints at, after revealing Varus' original governorship of Africa.
So if you believe Junkipedia, you presume that he retired the Syria governorship in 4BC, twiddled his thumbs in Rome for 10 years, then was appointed governor of Germany in 6 AD (officially confirmed in 7 AD). This bogus procedure - used to defend "JC the younger" by disguising His birth date - ignores the fact that Varus, while spending some time in Rome as such governors were allowed to do if their rule was stable, spent most of his time in Syria dealing with troubles e.g. those in the Judaean province. But all this trouble does NOT merely date to 4 BC - and nor was there another governor appointed to replace Varus in 4 BC; Sabinus appears to have been his deputy in Syria. (The appointment of Modius Aequiculus as related in Josephus Life was as a deputy-governor or military leader with specific aims).Wikipedia über alles playing us for chumps as usual said:Later he [Varus] went to govern Syria from 7/6 BC until 4 BC with four legions under his command, where he was known for his harsh rule and high taxes. The Jewish historian Josephus mentions the swift action of Varus against a messianic revolt in Judaea after the death of the Roman client king, Herod the Great, in 4 BC. After occupying Jerusalem, he crucified 2000 Jewish rebels and may have thus been one of the prime objects of popular anti-Roman sentiment in Judaea (Josephus, who made every effort to reconcile the Jewish people to Roman rule, felt it necessary to point out how lenient this judicial massacre had been). Indeed, at precisely this moment the Jews, nearly en masse, began a full-scale boycott of Roman pottery (Red Slip Ware). Thus, the archaeological record seems to verify mass popular protest against Rome because of Varus' cruelty.
Following the governorship of Syria, Varus returned to Rome and remained there for the next few years.![]()
However, when you read Josephus it is clear that before the appointment of Quirinius (Cyrenaeus) in 6AD (Antiquities 18:1 - references below are to this work), Varus had to deal with the extended Jewish uprisings for the 10 years following the death of Herod the Great, and the appointment of the latter's son as successor, Archelaus ben Herod, who was unable to control them. There was no "gap without a governor" between 4BC and 6AD, only a gap filled with Christian-Wikipedian deceit, all ready for the unwary to topple into! See Josephus 17:8 but especially 17:9:1 to 17:13:5 where the extended battle against Judas ben Hezekiah (head of the bandits), Simon the ex-slave (prototype of Peter) and Athronges takes place and where Varus is present during the invasion of Samaria to put these rebels down (17:10:9)!
IOW this obscurantism by standard Wikipedophilic-Christianity (or Christolatric Wikipediism) has obscured the intimate connection between the increased Roman desire for a great transcendent leader in the shoes of Julius Ceasar due to Rome's utter failure, primarily from Varus' incompetence, at the Battle of Teutoberg, since it was that battle that secured German freedom from invasion by Rome and the end of Julius Caesar's dream of conquering Europe and thus the barbarians once and for all. What has not been seen until now is the intimate connection between the Varian disaster (9 AD) and the initiation of the Jesus Christ cult, particularly after Augustus' death some years later!
Yours faithfully
Claude
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