It was a dispute between a new jewish school and an old jewish school but the aim of both is to destroy anything else it comes in contact with while providing nothing on its own merit except the promise that one day, in the far future, you will be a participant in the divine nature. No assurance for that, really, except subjective experience through ritualism.

So you have to destroy every beautiful thing now, you have to riot and vandalize everything your people built because if you don't destroy Roman civilization then you won't be a part of the new world order, which still hasn't come after 2,000 years, even though Jesus promised it within the generation of the Apostles. But you still have to do it, oh and when those civilizations tell you to stop committing crimes, that's persecution.

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