Today is the day of feast for St Stephen, the first guy to get killed for a hot take.
On the ancient market of ideas, hellenistic jewish christian St Stephen’s hot take that the Jerusalem temple was the same idolatry as the golden calf in the book of exodus annoyed jews in diaspora enough to drag him outside and stone him to death, setting an example for how to deal with neolib and alt right think tanks trying to turn government against marginalized groups
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