The Old Testament Foundations of Christian Thought

There was this idea that jewish people were poisoning wells and that was the cause of the uh because there was the whole Before germ theory it was miasma. There were texts from this time that would describe all of these pendant Helgrams that would be walking through the streets Flagellating themselves with whips and other stuff like making themselves bleed. So they would crowd the roads together, you know A perfect time for gathering of people in the middle of a pandemic for diseases to spread even more. Some christians became more pious some lost their faith completely But the people that became more pious believed that Through piety then endearing themselves to God or some kind of entity that they