From: JesusChrist@inorbit.com   
      
   The Holy Italian Empire   
      
   Matthew, Mark and Luke were good-hearted Rocky Balboa types (first Rocky   
   movie). Not much of a difference between them really. The early first century   
   Roman system for collecting taxes lent itself to excess, exploitation, and   
   corruption. Consider the    
   structure in AD 25. The Italian government 'bid out' the right to collect   
   taxes in a region of the empire. Rome's government would say, We need 'x'   
   amount of revenue from this region of the empire. Wealthy people (mob bosses)   
   would bid on the right to    
   collect (shake down) taxes in that region. Anything they collected above the   
   Italian government's demand was their profit (the take). The Roman regional   
   collectors often would hire managers (gangsters) in specific districts of the   
   region (such as    
   Zacchaeus) for the shake down. The man would have a specific sum he must   
   collect in the district. Anything he collected above that sum was kept (his   
   take). These managers would hire local Italian gangs in their district to do   
   the actual collecting (like    
   Matthew's gang). It was their job to actually collect (shake down) amounts   
   assigned by their managers (gangsters). If they collected more than the   
   managers requested, the amount they collected above what was required was kept   
   (their take). It does not    
   require a genius to imagine how Matthew, Mark and Luke, functionally   
   illiterate Rocky Balboas, worked.   
      
   Roman Catholic Church (RCC) is rooted from this origin of the Italian (Roman)   
   mob. Matthew, the illiterate tax collector, Mark the illiterate missionary and   
   Luke the illiterate slave physician. All three were thugs of The Holy Italian   
   Empire tax    
   department, none of them were authors. John the Baptist a/k/a Paulie, and   
   Jesus the Christ a/k/a Saulie, co-authored The New Testament in its entirety.   
      
   The Holy Italian Empire current Syndicated shake down Distribution Map   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_of_Catholics.png   
      
   Yahya the Baptizer   
   dob: 6/1/6 BC   
   (d/m/y)   
      
   Isa the Messiah   
   dob: 6/6/6 BC   
   (d/m/y)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)