I'm sick and tired of this.. please be advised: the following is a rant!

[Minimalist]

Have you never heard of Nero, Decius, or Diocletian?

The Nero stories seem to be a much later fiction. No xtian writer seems to know shit about Nero persecuting anyone.


Decius and Diocletian date from the 3d century when xtians had reached the point when they could actually be a problem for the empire....a situation which did not appear in the first or second centuries giving us some hint of how this particular cult grew.


I'm sure you are not interested in learning anything but there are others here who might.

http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/persecutions.html

The Roman Empire lasted more than a thousand years and persecuted Christians for fewer than twelve of them. The 'Christian Empire' also lasted more than a thousand years and persecuted non-Christians through all of them.