More on Jesus being a Roman

I posted a theory that Jesus was a Roman, not realizing that a famous and influential 1911 book, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, made a related argument. The book was notorious for other reasons.

All races are equally gifted; we point to history and answer: that is a lie! The races of mankind are markedly different in the nature and also in the extent of their gifts, and the Germanic races belong to the most highly gifted group, the group usually termed Aryan ... Physically and mentally the Aryans are pre-eminent among all peoples; for that reason they are by right ... the lords of the world.

The author did not believe in Darwinian evolution, so I am sure his analysis is flawed and outdated.

People say Jesus was a Jew, and I am not sure if they mean genetically, culturally, or religiously. I asked Google Gemini AI, and it said all three. It said that Jesus was not a Christian, because Christianity was founded by Paul after Jesus died.

That seems crazy to me.

Here is a more modern essay:

Any realistic path to victory over wokism requires widespread acceptance of hereditarianism among the elites. As I explained in “Why We Need to Talk about the Right’s Stupidity Problem,” wokism is what follows from taking the equality thesis seriously, given a background of Christian morality. If all races and sexes have the same innate distributions of psychological traits, disparities in socioeconomic status must be due to environmental factors. In practice, that means differences in outcome favoring whites or men will be attributed to past or present white racism or sexism. This triggers an all-consuming crusade against the hidden forces of discrimination. That’s what wokism is. Smart people are disproportionately attracted to the woke left because the mainstream right accepts the equality thesis but fails to recognize its implications. Woke law and woke institutions are primarily effects rather than causes of elites being woke. Undermining the equality thesis destroys the intellectual basis of wokism and gives the elites a reason to join the right.

This nearly got philosopher Nathan Cofnas canceled.