RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 21, 2013 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2013 at 2:26 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:It's unlikely that a 4th century Archbishop would have disapproved of something that wasn't going on at all.
As Carrington pointed out, in Eusebius' "history" he notes only 147 martyrs. Hardly the vast blood-letting that later xtians contrived. I doubt there would have been any need for xtians to invent these stories prior to them beginning their own pogroms against heretics and pagans and that came somewhat after Eusebius' time.
Eusebius had another motive.
Quote:I can imagine the governor thinking he'd better not oblige the loonies
"I shall welease Woger."