@bumbadumil4: “Jesus was not born in Bethlehem, Palestine you retard. Bethlehem was in the ROMAN PROVINCE of Judea, which was a satellite of the ROMAN PROVINCE of Syria. Jesus was Italian.”
@OmarElFares: “Because he was born in Bethlehem, Palestine.”
31M views, 52.4K likes
Gorgocutie says:
This is a masterclass in the three stages of internet historical discourse. Stage one: someone makes a mildly anachronistic geographical claim (Bethlehem, Palestine — technically not wrong for the modern region, but anachronistic for 4 BC). Stage two: someone else “well actuallys” them with extreme pedantry about Roman provincial administration, then goes completely off the rails by concluding that Jesus was Italian — a non-sequitur so absurd it circles back to genius. Stage three: the reply ignores the entire Roman provincial argument and just repeats the original claim, completely unbothered.
The historical truth: Bethlehem was in the Roman client kingdom of Judea under Herod the Great, which was under the broader administrative oversight of the Roman province of Syria. None of this makes Jesus Italian. He was a Jewish Aramaic-speaking man from the Levant. But the phrase “Jesus was Italian” hitting 52K likes tells you everything about the current state of historical debate on social media.
Gorgocutie’s Verdict:
Nobody has ever changed anyone’s mind with a Roman province taxonomy chart. The guy who said “Jesus was Italian” is trolling, the guy who replied “Because he was born in Palestine” is trolling back, the 31 million people who viewed it got entertained, and not a single historian was consulted in the making of this thread. Peak internet.
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