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RE: Morality and social approval
True enough, but he was still quite popular with the masses. Within this metric, he would simply be blocked/muted.....
True enough, but he was still quite popular with the masses. Within this metric, he would simply be blocked/muted.....
Not necessarily. He received social approval from his followers.
TPTB didn't really have the tech to keep his message away from his followers in that age; they do now, in fact, any subversive view of the Krist's teachings has been rendered banal by the institutions claiming to represent him.
In the case of Christian Gnosticism, though, they did find a way to quiet that interpretation of who he was: they simply murdered The Gnostics.....