Religion

But since you want to put so much time and energy into the effort, I’ll just direct you to the wiki page which lists between $91.28 and $441.28 in today’s dollars as literally a more educated guess.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_pieces_of_silver

Hopefully this puts the matter at rest that it is indeed a trivial sum and if it doesn’t feel free to update the wiki page, but don’t expect any more participation from me in this ad nauseum effort.

So as it turns out it was of pretty decent quality, and your counter not so much. And as far as trolling goes I suppose it should be noted you utterly ignored 75.8% of everything else I wrote to focus on one small detail you were certain you could offer enlightenment, but failed miserably. So there’s that.

In the interest of the lack of comprehension in regards to reading between the lines, the underlying point of this exercise is yet another demonstration that the bible is a work of literary amateurism(as if more were needed). I do get there are some people out there who believe in an unerring bible and experience a certain dissonance hearing these things. Probably none on DU, but certainly others who are here will feed the need to express outrage on their behalf. It is really for their benefit because if they had their way they might go their entire lives blissfully unaware 99%(approximately) of the book is little more than smoke and mirrors.

Hopefully the 99% figure is to your liking. Since you didn’t challenge it I’ll take that as tacit acceptance it’s a reasonable estimate.