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What you're claiming isn't that absurd, but the way you're claiming it is (no offense meant). The idea of a conspiracy is too complicated and convoluted. How about this instead: Yes, the New Testament and the Gospel in particular is absolutely a political document because the teachings of Christ were religio-political. The Apostles died because they believed in the religio-political mission of Christ to reform the corrupted religious and political practices of the time––remember, Christ was not only fighting against Jewish religionists who he believed were hypocrites and profiteers, but he was also fighting against the Roman political and religious empire that ruled over israel. And to make it even more complicated, he was opposed to the alliance between some Jewish elite and the Romans.
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