Why did Jesus kill the Pigs?

Looks like you and the whole town missed the point and what's up with the parable is that most folk miss the point.

In the stories (remember this is all fiction and there are two mutually exclusive stories), fiction told by Jews to Jews.The story is being told in a Roman Protectorate called Palestine.The Jews are a protected minority in Palestine and given special privileges.To Jews pigs are unclean animals. You don't eat them, wear them, raise them.To the rest of the population pigs are food and wealth and clothing and tools and decorative objects.Both populations believe in demonic possession.One population is jealous of the other populations special status and considers them weird at best.Someone who can control demons for any reason is a person to fear.Now:would one population see casting demons out of humans and into a useless, worthless object that is then killed and destroyed ending the threat from demons as good while one population see it as destruction of property AND someone with control of demons that might just cast them into the people? As a story told to Jews by Jews and about Jews see it as describing destruction of a livelihood?If the answer to that is "No, they would not see it as describing destruction of a livelihood then the topic must be something else.Throw "describing destruction of a livelihood" away and go back to the story.

Didn't he bring the Galileen Dozen with him?

Go reread Message 29 and then reread the passages.

Still missing the point.We don't know if the "villagers" were Jews or Greeks or Romans. It doesn't matter.The pigs, just like the Garden or the God character in Genesis 2&3 is just a plot device.Go back and reread Message 29.Was there something in the fable that both Jews and non-Jews should fear?

Specifically, the ability to control demons.In the story that is what the people fear. It's not the loss of the pigs it is a fear of someone who can control demons.Or raise the dead.Or turn water into wine.Or tell folk that "They are NOT the chosen ones of God."It is someone who is challenging the established order; who works outside the establishment.

Huh?Jesus came as a teacher. What did Jesus teach about who are God's children?We've been over this many times before Phat. I am not against Paul's new religion as long as folk understand even Paul's New Religion is not Christianity but just one man's creation.And Christianity is not God's religion.Christianity is a human creation.