I think we should respect all religions (people might not know their friend is devoted to muslim or Chrisitanity etc)

[JuliusHackebeil]

OneTime said:

JuliusHackebeil said:

Morbidly enough there is some really old documentation about roman soldiers complaining that they cannot kill any more christians. They just came up to the soldiers with the request to be killed. Such crazy strong convictions are seldom now. But that is a good thing in my book. I'd rather take the hypocrites than the ones devaluing life on earth.

The Romans believed in Law and Order.  They were not in the habit of killing Christians without cause (or indeed the Jews or Egyptians in the areas that they had occupied).  So the story sounds like standard Church propaganda.  The point is the same: very few people actually believe in God, but many are very vocal in pretending that they do...

Could be, never checked myself. But I got the story from my very knowledgable and very secular latin prof at university.

And it is not really a good look for the church anyways when the story is: christians wanna be killed but roman soldiers feel too bad about it.