Message from @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck
Discord ID: 641368323941990451
```Mr Atwill added: "They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system.```
I read that
.......which would explain why the Jews killed Jesus
but it doesn't address the issue of why they then persecuted the religion they're trying to spread
you can doubt all you want
the site was shit as well
so many fucking adds
Well then if Jews killed Jesus, fuck the Jews.
But why it would be Romans executing him then is beyond me.
I see what you mean.
Dunno, Rome persecuting Christianity seems really....contradictory from what I know of other religions citizens followed
christianity was adopted by rome 300 or so years after jesus's death
a fire in rome was supposedly blamed on christians
christians refused roman religious traditions such as sacrifice
To my knowledge, Christians blamed Nero for "fiddling" while Rome burned (he was a few miles away from Rome when the fire even happened IIRC), so the feeling was mutual if anything
Fucking Christians burning shit; should've left architectural and cultural destruction to the Muslims.
Doing a bit of research into it, the persecution of Christians is a tad overblown
oh no question that it gets exaggerated. much of history does
Quite a bit, in fact
I'm gonna go with the latter just to be sure, though I vaguely remember somebody making a case for the former in a book I read
the only Imperial persecution of Christians seemed to have occurred over the span of approximately....63 years, from 250 AD (when Decius administered an Edict because he was a superstitious fuck who wanted to beat the Goths) to about 313 AD (the Edict of Milan, which overruled Decius' edict and mandated that citizens treat Christians nicely)
though the case could be made that that period of solely persecuting Christians was far shorter, from 303 to 306, during the reign of Diocletian
Regardless, if Jesus were a figment of the imagination of a Roman Emperor who decided to make sure the Jews couldn't get TOO out of hand, then it's not TOO far out of the question to assume that other Emperors simply didn't know (since there were a few emperors after the alleged life of Jesus that simply waltzed into Rome with an army, this seems the most likely reason why some later Emperors didn't know)
I'd think that if you're trying to subversively disseminate a new religion, it would require a network large enough that even if someone did a complete and fresh takeover, it'd be nigh impossible to do so without learning of the plan
Dunno, the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction
agreed
and a lot of the stuff we actually know about Jesus is from like the 2nd century AD iirc
to my knowledge, we don't have mention of a 'Jesus' from records of that time period
isn't Tacitus one of the first Roman accounts of Christianity?
I think so?
SJWs trying to poke the hornet's nest once again
There's going to come a day when this flips so hard, Hitler 2 mark boogaloo will come back in vengeance. Just an observation, not a statement of position, ***discord***
oh boi
this is gonna be one a spicy meatball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI8SZXUF57Y
net neutrality was such a sham
in some ways, yes