I assure you a lot of Christians don’t even have a basic understanding of the Mediterranean and Levantine political situation at the time of the gospels (which

I assure you a lot of Christians don’t even have a basic understanding of the Mediterranean and Levantine political situation at the time of the gospels (which kind of features heavily in them) let alone anything about contemporary local events in Messianic Judaism and anti-Roman sentiment. Other religions, currently-active or ancient (or both)? Nah. Zero or near-zero knowledge for most. That’s nerd shit.