tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post3275942644804600988..comments2024-03-19T00:26:30.753-07:00Comments on The Jesus Blog: Robert Myles’s Homeless JesusAnthony Le Donnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-73466339900030217842014-09-18T11:04:43.061-07:002014-09-18T11:04:43.061-07:001) Forced displacement would be one consideration;...1) Forced displacement would be one consideration; 2) living as a seeker or hermit in the wilderness would be another. More interesting to me though: the perhaps 3) widespread practice of living as a religious mendicant or beggar, would be another.<br /><br />Or even more interesting to me: 4) the destruction of the Jewish theocratic state c. 64 BC, dramatized by the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, meant the separation of Jewish religion, from the practical useful services of the central theocratic state. The loss of civil government function, meant consequent loss of institutional/material base and support.<br /><br />A state has many material functions: proving an army, granaries, medical care, schools. But when religion was no longer part of an actual material state, religion became homeless, and "spiritual." It also lost realistic ties to the material function of the kingdom, the theocratic state however.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com