Totally missed the real story & replaced it with nonsense. When Alexander the Great died young 3 generals grabbed power. 1 was Antiochus. These generals were not Alexanders trying to spread Greek culture. They were Mafia dons who only cared about money & power. (As usual) some Jews went to Antiochus & convinced him to put them in control of the Jews by promising him more taxes & quiet from the Jews (no revolts). Antiochus agreed. These Jews had a problem. If Jews kept being religious instead of buying into the "Mafia style" of life they'd (the children or grandchildren) revolt against this Mafia so these Hellenistic Jews tried to crush Judaism to avoid a revolt later. Meanwhile, the religious Jews at that time said if we let this happen the worse itll get so we need to fight these Mafia Jews immediately. That's what happened & when these Hellenistic Jews couldn't win Antiochus had no choice but to send in his army to help his allies defeat the religious Jews. 1. The Greeks didn't care about Judaism as Alexander the Great had declared it a non pagan religion & had no problem with it being practiced. It was the Hellenistic JEWS that wanted to crush it. 2. That during the story of Chanukah the Hellenist Jews didn't have a problem with Jews practicing Judaism, they just wanted them to "Modernize" is a complete Bubba Meisah.
Well, if this is what they don't want me to know, they are doing a very bad job. I've always heard this during Hanukkah.
But you never listen haha
Silly Greeks could never beat the Chosen People of God!
Totally missed the real story & replaced it with nonsense. When Alexander the Great died young 3 generals grabbed power. 1 was Antiochus. These generals were not Alexanders trying to spread Greek culture. They were Mafia dons who only cared about money & power. (As usual) some Jews went to Antiochus & convinced him to put them in control of the Jews by promising him more taxes & quiet from the Jews (no revolts).
Antiochus agreed. These Jews had a problem. If Jews kept being religious instead of buying into the "Mafia style" of life they'd (the children or grandchildren) revolt against this Mafia so these Hellenistic Jews tried to crush Judaism to avoid a revolt later. Meanwhile, the religious Jews at that time said if we let this happen the worse itll get so we need to fight these Mafia Jews immediately. That's what happened & when these Hellenistic Jews couldn't win Antiochus had no choice but to send in his army to help his allies defeat the religious Jews.
1. The Greeks didn't care about Judaism as Alexander the Great had declared it a non pagan religion & had no problem with it being practiced. It was the Hellenistic JEWS that wanted to crush it.
2. That during the story of Chanukah the Hellenist Jews didn't have a problem with Jews practicing Judaism, they just wanted them to "Modernize" is a complete Bubba Meisah.
Total waste of time!
Not at all, give it a chance