Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly matter. That was a Jesus the Romans could accept, and in fact did accept three centuries later when the Roman emperor Flavius Theodosius {d. 395} made the itinerant Jewish preacher's movement the official religion of the state, and what we now recognize as orthodox Christianity was born.
( Reza Aslan )
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