[sethammons]

Oh my. Paste your stuff into ai and have an impartial conversation. You are not grounded in reality and I believe your views are dangerous because they rewrite truths into a package that has been and will continue to be used as a cudgel against others.

I challenge you to provide one thing that jesus introduced. It turns out, EVERYTHING he taught already existed. I can paste a table of data, but ai is cleaner and faster.

And democracy is _famously_ Greek. Over half six hundred years before Jesus lived.

His historical impact comes less from novelty and more from narrative power, charismatic delivery, and, later, institutional amplification. And it is largely Paul who should be credited for amplification.

[aristofun]

You know that greek democracy had very little to do with what we called democracy in the west right?

Show me other religion that taught to love your enemies and survived to these days at the same time. Just a tiny example of why you totally miss the point by not seeing how innovative was his ethical approach for that time. And yes, one of his great achievements is that he succeeded to make those simple and already existed ideas popular. This is novelty by itself.