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Originally posted by BeMoreCynical
Insofar as the New Testament concern, i can successfully argue that there is NO connection. Christianity is a religion that is based in Jewish apocalypticism in the first century, which descends from the expulsion of the Essenes from Judaism shortly after the Hasmonean Dynasty took over the Jewish Temple shortly after the Maccabean War.