narciso
2008-09-17 20:50:46
When one considers how stupid and insensitive that meme, is, one is driven to contempt of the utterer of that phrase. One, Pilate was not elected, he was appointed he was like those German Abwehr officials in Vichy France, or to use a more contemporary example Bull Connor of the Birmingham Public Safety Commission. He was
a callous figure, that would use any means to suppress an insurrection; which he had let happen. From using the Temple treasury to fund
the Aqueduct; to surrendering to the mob’s hatred of Jesus, to killing the Samaritans, which prompted his recall and subsequent death.
That’s in Josephus’s Antiquities, by the way, not in the Bible. Where Mr. Meir got his facts I won’t even venture to consider.
