"However, even if they did ignore that risk, you'd still end up with severe limitations in what could be accomplished gameplay-wise because you're not going to make Judaism a hard-coded military-minded faith--which in turn makes it useless to Montezuma, who'll thus never be likely to adopt the faith as his state religion."
Judaism DID have a period in its early history where it was VERY militant. Does anyone remember the Zealots of Masada, a hardcore Judaic sect with both messianic-suicidal and nationalist-homicidal tendencies who gave the Romans a run for their money in the fight for freedom and independence, not to mention successfully assassinating a few Roman politicians at the same time? There are those who proclaim them as the precursors of the Irgun and the Haganah, the earliest examples of a type of secretive and elite modern paramilitary organisation which currently goes by the name of Mossad. It has been said that the Zealots, among whom Judas the Maccabee was with all probability a prominent member, were the enemies of the Essenes, a pacifist religious sect, among whom Jesus supposedly grew up, which is one of the reasons that Jesus was killed, under the pretext of preaching blasphemy and proclaiming himself the son of God. These are just a few of the more obscure, strange, far out and wierd factoids from Josephus's Histories of the Roman Wars of Occupation in Jewish Palestine, 79 AD.
