Glad you have that clarity, I guess. How the Romans mandated things versus how the Jews interpreted then can be up for discussion. Modern day, people declare themselves residents of different states for tax and government spending purposes too. I'm not sure which Herod you're referring to, b/c there are several, and purges of rebellious populations was sadly a common thing back in the day, thinning the herd and all that. Sort of like now, with the injections. Now granted, I don't do the deep dives with the rapid page-flipping preachers that try to match individual words across books etc, but I do listen to the archaeologists who are digging and finding truths that have been covered up, misreported, and unreported for a long time. I think that eventually the whole truth will come out, but I'm still going to watch most carefully where the evil attacks hardest. That's always been the Christians, the Catholic Church and Marian people. (Do you know, for example, how many times masons have bombed and tried to burn down shrines or churches dedicated to Mary?)
But it's been spoken of for a long time, at least in italian/hispanic circles, probably because it's been a more open war for longer, being as latins generally tend to be more Catholic and hold the Virgin Mother dearer than protestants do. Masons in politics would openly speak against the Catholics vehemently and then suddenly broken glass attacks with fire, vandalism and desecration etc. would happen 'spontaneously'. The history gets scrubbed because they want to appear wholesome to get christians to join, but we have a relative in the past who tried to get out when he realized the truth, and then died suddenly.
Glad you have that clarity, I guess. How the Romans mandated things versus how the Jews interpreted then can be up for discussion. Modern day, people declare themselves residents of different states for tax and government spending purposes too. I'm not sure which Herod you're referring to, b/c there are several, and purges of rebellious populations was sadly a common thing back in the day, thinning the herd and all that. Sort of like now, with the injections. Now granted, I don't do the deep dives with the rapid page-flipping preachers that try to match individual words across books etc, but I do listen to the archaeologists who are digging and finding truths that have been covered up, misreported, and unreported for a long time. I think that eventually the whole truth will come out, but I'm still going to watch most carefully where the evil attacks hardest. That's always been the Christians, the Catholic Church and Marian people. (Do you know, for example, how many times masons have bombed and tried to burn down shrines or churches dedicated to Mary?)
The 1921 bombing at Fatima comes to mind first with me- https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/our-lady-of-fatima-and-the-battle-with-freemasonry-part https://fatima.org/fatima-combated-in-portugal-march-6-1922/ (note here that the portuguese government openly spoke of eradicating the church within 40 years)
But it's been spoken of for a long time, at least in italian/hispanic circles, probably because it's been a more open war for longer, being as latins generally tend to be more Catholic and hold the Virgin Mother dearer than protestants do. Masons in politics would openly speak against the Catholics vehemently and then suddenly broken glass attacks with fire, vandalism and desecration etc. would happen 'spontaneously'. The history gets scrubbed because they want to appear wholesome to get christians to join, but we have a relative in the past who tried to get out when he realized the truth, and then died suddenly.
Nowadays perhaps. Back in the day they apparently were very openly open about eradicating Christianity.