Quote:If you want any speculation as to the rise of the popularity of Christianity some historians speculate it was caused by Nero's blaming them for the fire that burned down Rome.
I bet those "historians" ( meaning most likely bible-thumping shitheads with a divinity degree ) have no explanation as to why not a single xtian writer in antiquity seems to know anything about that. It appears only in a single medieval manuscript of Tacitus right next to where some helpful monk changed the word Chrestianos to Christianos. Highly suspicious.
