>religion=control through fear
these motherfuckers don't know their great grandparents names but they believe what is written in a book by someone unrelated to them 1000's of years ago.
The amount of deception laid upon the people is beyond belief.
>30-40
300-400 years
josephus allegedly wrote the original stories around 70AD when israel was razed, as he was a prisoner of war by the flavians. Definitely no reason to doubt his story.