Parables, huh?
"Sell your cloak and buy a sword."
"I came not to bring peace, but a sword."
If "sword" = truth, then buy a truth?
Buying blackmail (truth)?
Seems pretty Jewy.
Where does one would BUY truth?
According to the mythology, Jesus never married or had kids.
If you want to reduce the population of Gentiles, you sell them that as the only "God approved" WAY to live their LIFE.
Ascetic piety is population control.
What is a key identifier of a Death Cult? That they comitt murder?
No.
That they worship the fear of death, and the power of the royalty and the nobility to inflict death on their slaves without remorse.