Episode 4.07: Jesus of Nazareth was persecuted for living and preaching The Dewey Principle.

This is not a religious diatribe. Jesus was crucified because he preached “take no thought for tomorrow” and “consider the lilies of the field”, so undermining the party line that The Dewey Principle (if you will pardon the anachronism) is unworkable. And not only was Jesus crucified for preaching and living this message; to make sure it would not “catch on” his teachings were appropriated by and so turned into an institutional religion that said the opposite: take every thought for tomorrow or you will go to .