Sorry, but what you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense.
Again, Paul knew he was risking everything and doing it for NO DISECRNABLE EARTHLY GAIN.
You wrote: “Men who seek power always do it at great risk.”
Not necessarily and not ever as Paul did. Paul joined a side that had NO EARTHLY POWER WHATSOEVER and at great personal risk - guaranteed risk - to himself. Quite simply NO ONE DOES THAT.
“Well, Jewish law would have required him to pay a fee to her father and marry her, but other than that, no”
Again, you’re not making any sense. Paul’s moral code precluded any act of rape. It’s just that simple.
Everyone is entitled to his opinion but when an opinion is just irrational, unreasonable, baseless, and goes against all known evidence it’s not worth holding to say the least.
If he was guiding the course of a growing religion, I don't see how you could say he had no earthly power. Telling other people what to think and how to worship is a great deal of power.
Again, you’re not making any sense. Paul’s moral code precluded any act of rape. It’s just that simple.
That's great. I never said he was a rapist and am still trying to figure out why you brought it up in the first place. Oh, you think he was the only ambitious man in history not to use his power to seduce women. My response can only be: as far as we know, he didn't, but not all of them do. There's no evidence Rasputin had a bevy of young beauties in his bed either, or that nut from the Heaven's Gate cult.