RE: Crucifixion question
April 14, 2019 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2019 at 11:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
People were made to carry the crossbars as a sort of mobile stock - and ever the efficient pragmatists, the romans would have used that stock as the upper span of the t.
Lay aside the pomp and pageantry of the fictional passion narrative, and it's easy to understand why people would do this. Imagine yourself in a long line of people who are all restrained by bar. You get lead here and there in this way. People who object are killed, or worse. The presence of crucified dissenters on the roadside reminds you of how simply you could be strung up, but, for the most part, that's not the fate of the group or the purpose of the restraint.
Crucifixion is as easy as pulling someone out of line and putting them on an empty stick, leading to endlessly creative variations on the theme.
Lay aside the pomp and pageantry of the fictional passion narrative, and it's easy to understand why people would do this. Imagine yourself in a long line of people who are all restrained by bar. You get lead here and there in this way. People who object are killed, or worse. The presence of crucified dissenters on the roadside reminds you of how simply you could be strung up, but, for the most part, that's not the fate of the group or the purpose of the restraint.
Crucifixion is as easy as pulling someone out of line and putting them on an empty stick, leading to endlessly creative variations on the theme.
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