Jesus Never Existed Com

[Mudhammam]

Read it closely:

The traditional date for Clement's epistle, which has been elicited by the Epistle to the Hebrews's call for leadership from the church in Rome and is permeated with the earlier letter's influence,[3] is at the end of the reign of Domitian, or c. 96 AD

Somewhere around here there is a discussion of this epistle and the alleged persecution of Domitian...which did not happen. When I get the time I'll go looking for it.

The very fact that it makes an assertion of a persecution by Domitian suggests that this is simply a much later forgery when this whole "oh-poor-persecuted-us" shit had gotten started.

BTW, there is also no evidence for any group of xtians in first century Rome. There are jewish catacombs from the first century...but not xtian.

I'll look more into it. But why would we expect to find archeological evidence of a group that was so small and insignificant? (explained, of course, by the fact that it's central claims were not literal or historical events).

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Well, Wiki says this about Dominion: "In addition to exercising absolute political power, Domitian believed the Emperor's role encompassed every aspect of daily life, guiding the Roman people as a cultural and moral authority."

Considering that many modern Christians believe Obama is the anti-Christ and there is a war on Christmas, I see nothing remarkable about their claims of political persecution in the 1st century.