(November 17, 2015 at 6:07 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(October 28, 2015 at 9:58 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: I have no complaints about the majority of your reply except for this bit, and only because it's a red herring that doesn't address the original question. You're quite right about the tension between the Romans and the Jews, but that still doesn't make Paul's statements in the epistles, circa 45 CE, automatically or inherently dangerous to him, let alone a "death sentence". We certainly have evidence that, 20 years later, the Christians were being persecuted in places like Rome, on the orders of Emperor Nero who sought to blame their minority for his own actions as a political distraction... many, many Christians were executed in that decade by Nero's orders.
Actually no we don't. There is some evidence that christians were blamed after the fire of Rome, but not enough to be conclusive, but there is little to no evidence of persecution of christians because of their religion until Diocletian, which didn't happen until 303 CE. Most of what is reported as "christian persecution" before then is propaganda invented by the church to a) make the church look bigger than it was and b) give the believers strength through inventing a persecution complex.
So are you one of 'those people' who also say the Germans did not try to genocidaly wipe out all Jews as well?
Here ya go sport, the following artical points to a dozen or so indivisual points of reference that include, historian's personal accounts of witnessing the slaughter, Period correct edicts from governors, letters from regionts seeking authorization for death to Christians, From a declare from Nero Himself citing Christians for the burning of Rome, all the way to the actual document Constintine wrote Demanding the persecution stop, thus putting an end to 300 years of persecution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chris...man_Empire
Just because someone says something you want to hear, doesn't mean it is true. If you don't like wiki, then look up the actual source material the artical references.. They all point to the same thing. (that you are beyond wrong/foolish for just believing atheist propaganda without vetting the source material facts of their charge. which ironically enough is what you blindly accuse us of doing.)
