Why do so many Roman statues have missing noses?
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The Talmud discusses disrespecting idols in the context of nullifying their status as objects of worship, primarily in Tractate Avodah Zarah. The specific reference to damaging a statue's nose appears in:
Mishnah Avodah Zarah 53a
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The Mishnah states that a gentile can revoke an idol's status by defacing it:
"How does a gentile revoke the status of an object of idol worship? If he cut off the tip of its ear, or the tip of its nose, or its fingertip..."
This is codified as a method of nullification (710'7)-intentionally damaging the idol to show it's no longer revered. The act must be done by the idol's owner (a non-Jew) with the explicit intent to repudiate its divine status. Once properly nullified, the object loses its forbidden status and can be used for mundane purposes
As you say, the earliest Christians were literally spiritual globohomo jews. They were reviling and destroying White culture way the fuck before Antifa ever came along.
NO THEY WEREN'T
Christ was killed by the globohomos. They rounded up his disciples and killed them too.
Almost instantly they divorced themselves from the Pharisees, and when the pharisees tried to sneak in the back door they were shut down time and time again.
Look up "judaizers" and you'll find a great portion of the NT was written specifically to root OUT the subversive elements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxxg_1baX4
Give me proof it was Christians defacing pagan temples. You'll probably find cases where Christians were retaliating for being mass-slaughtered by people trying to force paganism down their throats, but mostly Christians were fine living side-by-side with pagans.
Christ showed how paganism and "judaism" (actually Moses) were not enemies. He provided a path to bring the pagan into the circle without the pagan having to give up his culture or history. That was the message that Paul and others brought to the world. You don't need to cut off your foreskin to be acceptable to God, for instance.
Paul spends a LONG time trying to explain why eating meat sacrificed to idols is no sin, except for the fact that some Christians (jews) were so weak in their faith that they would be offended by it because they can't understand simple concepts like "Jesus saves" so it's probably better not to piss people off for little gain.
The historical record shows that it wasn't Christians running around burning books and destroying temples. If anything, they were preserving them.