Yes. OHJ has a scripture index. You can use that to find all discussions of any specific passage. And “temple” is also in the subject index. If you cross reference those two you can find the page that discusses this.

Your analogy doesn’t hold because Judea wasn’t a humanist democracy. The temple battalion would have rained death on masses of people without compunction. It would be more analogous if (a) a battalion of National Guard were stationed in the Capitol and (b) it were run by remorseless killers with no respect for public assemblies even of a peaceful kind.

Needless to say, were (a) and (b) true January 6, the Capitol assault would have turned out with exactly the contrary outcome. And that’s even with thousands of people; there is no evidence any such group ever invaded the Temple, led by Jesus or otherwise, yet Josephus surely would have recorded such an incredible incident, and Romans surely would not have forgotten it every time they even mentioned Christians.

The Gospels depict it as Jesus a lone man even. So already you have to conclude that is fiction. If you then invent a version of events nowhere recorded, just to get it to be barely possible, you end up with too improbable an outcome to credit: a successful proto-Christian military assault on a heavily-defended fortress that no one recorded—not the Gospels, nor even the historian who dedicated dozens of volumes to recording exactly such things, nor any Roman historian who could not have overlooked it.

Yes. I do get royalties on Nook.

And JFOS is most definitely on Nook.

(Though not all my books are.)

I also cover the intersection of morality and art in my section on aesthetics in Sense and Goodness without God. And for an example of extending the general points there to specific domains, see my article on Sexual Objectification in art or speech.

Depends on what you mean here by “moral.” Morally permissible, morally enjoyable, sure. Morally obligatory, no.

Remember you can use the search box at the upper right here. There is also a category dropdown menu a few beats down that same margin, and one of the categories you will find there is “music.”

what’s your favourite hymn then?

I take it you hold all music or art to be ‘moral’?

(Grateful if you’d point me towards anything you’ve written on aesthetics/music and its any moral aspects.
Perhaps music was not a little part of Roman curricula?)

I don’t do trees in my own place when I’m by myself; but I put up the tree for my parents, and celebrated there.

I actually like almost all things Christmas. See my article on that: The Real War on Christmas: The Fact That Christmas Is Better Than Christ.

Probably genetics. I do live a healthier life than the average American. But no healthier than the average European.