RE: Christian things
May 1, 2013 at 1:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2013 at 1:54 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Etruscans used crucifixion as well, as did the Persians. Both of these had contacts with Phoenecians. So It seems probably crucifixion as applied in the Medterranean during the classical period was spread around by the Phoeniceans.
But crucifixion is not really so uncommon a type of execution through out the world. It was used in Japan, China, Island cultures in the Pacific, etc. It also really didn't require a lot of sadistic inventiveness compared to many other forms of ancient executions, which might account for its relative commonality before christianity hyped it beyond all proportion. It was only the hype spread by self-serving christianity that made it seem to the untutored moderns a particularly unusually and cruel form of demise.
But imagine how far christianity would have gotten if Jesus was subject to what is in reality a more cruel, painful and prolonged execution as practiced by the Persians: He would be sealed up in a barrel with hands, feet, and head protruding. He would be force fed copious amounts of milk and honey to keep him alive and and induce and maintain diarrhea. He would wallow in the sealed barrel of his own filth for a period of 3-4 weeks as he is gradually consumed by maggots laid by flys attracted to the smell, until he eventually die of septic shock his chest and abdomon rots through and his innards are exposed to his own accummulated waste.
But crucifixion is not really so uncommon a type of execution through out the world. It was used in Japan, China, Island cultures in the Pacific, etc. It also really didn't require a lot of sadistic inventiveness compared to many other forms of ancient executions, which might account for its relative commonality before christianity hyped it beyond all proportion. It was only the hype spread by self-serving christianity that made it seem to the untutored moderns a particularly unusually and cruel form of demise.
But imagine how far christianity would have gotten if Jesus was subject to what is in reality a more cruel, painful and prolonged execution as practiced by the Persians: He would be sealed up in a barrel with hands, feet, and head protruding. He would be force fed copious amounts of milk and honey to keep him alive and and induce and maintain diarrhea. He would wallow in the sealed barrel of his own filth for a period of 3-4 weeks as he is gradually consumed by maggots laid by flys attracted to the smell, until he eventually die of septic shock his chest and abdomon rots through and his innards are exposed to his own accummulated waste.
