The supreme arrogance of religious thinking

[Cerrone]

So the manuscript said "Chrestianos" before some xtain monk decided to help things out by doing a little editing. "Chrestianos" (followers of Chrestus, a common Greek name)) just happens to be who Suetonius reported were causing trouble in the reign of Nero's immediate predecessor, Claudius. This finding brings Suetonius and Tacitus into agreement and also strongly suggests that the interpolation happened in the 15th century when the work was made available to the public.

Something people tend to initially not get when researching into history is that the church had much of the historical documentation and records under their exclusive control for well over 1000 years, and falsifying texts or just erasing them from history was very common.

BTW Mini I read through that persecution link you put on here yesterday, very good stuff. Thank you! I was aware that christians grossly overplayed events and had always rewritten things to place them in a favorable light, but i wasn't at all aware that it went as far back as Nero.