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OneTime on 12 June 2022
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JuliusHackebeil said:
OneTime said:

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.

I'm not disagreeing that such a document exists (I've heard of similar things as well - just in Religious Education class)... just why these things come up in literature is probably not coincidental to the politics behind what gets retained and destroyed in history.

Just remember:  Christians believe that I should suffer burning for eternity because I don't believe Jesus is the Son of God.  Muslims think basically the same thing but because I don't believe in a particular Prophet.

They'll lie and say "we don't really think that", but it says it very clearly in the Bible and Koran...  And they have made no effort of updating it to avoid the "misinterpretation" (LOL) of the scripture.

So... Yes.  Why should I respect these people?