One should say it clearly and brutally: Christian origins stories of the sort we begin to see in Acts always had a great deal more to do with negotiating the ideological aftermath of this colonial rebellion and its rapaciously brutal repressions than it ever did with the natural outworking of distinct and distinctly ideal identities, projects, or theologies. Such representational, idealizing tales are instead the essentially repressive fantasies of the sort we can begin to intuit already in Acts’ early narrative of Christian origins.