". In the first chapter of her 1995 book The Origin of Satan, Elaine Pagels, a historian of the Christian religion, describes the first of the gospels, attributed to Mark, as a text intended to incite a specific political insurgency in Jerusalem after the city was sacked by Rome in the first century. The specially crafted contradictions in the first written-down Jesus story remain present in Christianity today: God is love and wants us to kill his enemies. Hereâs how Pagelsâs explanation goes: ..."