(October 14, 2010 at 1:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The whole Nero thing is another example of the classic xtian paradox, Cerrone.
On the one hand they expect everyone to believe that their boy was so important and so disruptive and had so many followers that the sanheddrin had no choice but to break every fucking rule in their own book and hold a "trial" on passover because they could not wait another day to deal with this problem and YET, he was so insignificant that no one made the slightest reference to him.
Likewise, they blithely assume that with their boy dying no later Spring 36 AD and the Great Fire of 64 AD happening a mere 28 years later that there were somehow "multitudes" of xtians in fucking Rome itself and YET, in spite of this apparent enormous expansion of xtian numbers not a single Greco-Roman or Jewish writer makes the slightest reference to them until the second century when Pliny the Younger writes that he questioned a group of them in Asia Minor.
I swear, sometimes I think that they think everyone is as credulous as they!
There's also a reference in Tacitus' Annals, about a Christus, which Christians make plenty of noise with. If you tell them that Tacitus is reporting what he just knew from contempary Christians, they go crazy on you. I've had the experience on certain xtian forums.
