Aslan's idea isn't even a new one...which he freely admits.
Hugh Schonfield's (a Hebrew Christian) "The Passover Plot" covered this same ground almost 50 years ago. My lefty kollege perfessers put it on my required reading list.
When the history of this age is written, it will not be the fools and bigots which will be remembered. Those who will be most harshly judged will be the intelligent, sophisticated and educated men who deliberately cultivated these barbarians to further their own reactionary political, economic and social agendas.
Every age and nation has its own generation of vipers.
Every time I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned
Why'd you choose such a backward time and nation?
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication