However, I may have proved that Metal is both educational AND truly the devils work....
See Im a fan of Pantera, and whilst looking up some obscure nonsense on an album they released came across this rather interesting entry on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_I ... es_Pantera
so off I set, reading and following links....how odd thikns I that I didnt ever learn about this bloke at school... ah yeah I went to a catholic school.....
so
which of these do you find a more credible scenario:
A) Sometime in 1BC God, divine creator of the whole universe, decides to send his son down to earth. Ignoring the recognised centres of academia and philosophy like Rome, Athens, Alexandria and Corinth he instead chooses some woman in a backwater village in a dustbowl scrabby provincial backwater to impregnate. In a fanfare of trumpets and cherubim said divinity does the dirty, and then allows his representative on earth to be born in a stable...
OR
B) A pissed off battle hardened Roman legionary, after a very dirty bloody supression campaign in Nazereth during 3 to 1 BC, gets pissed and rapes a local girl. Local girl, now shamed and traumatised, makes up a pack of claptrap about immaculate conception. Her son, being illigitimate rape child of the Roman opressor is marked an outcast, and as a result rebels against the established Judaeic order with a pack of similarly motivated neer do wells. This morphs into a quasi-religious revolution that is soon stamped out. 30 years after his execution, the first Flavian emperor
Vespasian, fresh from his conquests in Judea sees an opportunity to destabalise the Hebraic priesthood who are behind the rebels. He and his son (and later emperor) Tiberius use their pet judas goat Jewish family historian (and ex Siccarri rebel leader) Josephus to set the cat amongst the pidgeons. 250 years later Constantine finishes the job...hey presto The Catholic Church.
eeerm Im voting B
now back to the metal
