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Oh, screw the Pope. He is a marxist , anyway. Or a Christian. ONe of the two. He wears that weird hat to make him look like an erect aryan rictus.
A walking erect penis.

In the Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus wrote, concerning the fire that Nero was suspected of setting:

“To suppress this rumor, Nero fabricated scapegoats— and punished with every refinement the notoriously depraved Christians, as they were popularly called.”

Notoriously depraved?

Many people think that this appellation occurred because the Christians had so many lies told about them and everyone believed the lies.

But I don’t think that the people back then were as stupid as the ones today. What was really going on? What depravities were the Christians engaging in?

The Corinthians, on Paul’s own account, were depraved as well— having sex with their own step-mothers and other depravities, usually sexual.

I suspect that it was things of that nature, committed by Christians, that repelled the Romans.

I kind of doubt there were any Christians in Rome during the reign of Nero. I don’t think Christianity was known in Rome until the early to mid 2nd century. During the first century Christianity was still mostly confined to a few cities in the East, like Jerusalem and Antioch. And most of those 1st century Xians were Jews, along with a few Greeks.

Antagon is hopelessly ignorant of the fact, that Tacitus as well as most ancient writers and records were forged in the medival monasteries, to “improve” poor Christian history. As copies were rare and handwritten, evidence of forgery is only possible by comparison with facts that are not disputed- by the Christian Churches. Systematic forgery of history by Christian “fathers” was already noted by Gibbon, many scholars have confirmed him and contributed further evidence.
Any historical evidence, that the Christian community in Rome comprised of others than a few jewish friends of the “Apostle Paul” is completely lacking. As late as the 4th century A.D., a writer decribed in Rome 426 temples and sacred buildings, BUT NOT ONE Christian Church! Rome had remained a non-Christian city at least to the time of Theodosius, and for this reason Constantine had transferred the Capital to Byzanz, called Constantinople.

The most excellent Arminius speaks the truth. The passage from Tacitus about “Chrestiani” in 1st century Rome is highly dubious and was most likely a clumsy insertion made by some monk in the Dark Ages. The same holds true for that brief paragraph about Jesus in Josephus’ history of the Jewish War against Rome. No 1st century religious leader named Jesus the Christ is made mention of by any known writer from that period. Nor is the Christian religion mentioned anywhere in the Roman historical record until about the year 112. And even then it is only briefly mentioned as a small, obscure religious sect located far from Rome, in Asia Minor.

The most excellent Arminius speaks the truth. The passage from Tacitus about “Chrestiani” in 1st century Rome is highly dubious and was most likely a clumsy insertion made by some monk in the Dark Ages

I don’t think so. He would not have referred to Christians as “notoriously depraved.” As I said, this fails the criterion of self-interest.

But I wonder if Saul of Tarsus even existed? He was supposed to be a tent-maker, a Pharisee and a Roman citizen, as well as captain of the Jewish Temple Police, I believe. But outside of the Book of Acts, which was supposedly written by “Saint Luke”, and a few letters (or epistles) allegedly written by “Saint Paul” there’s no evidence that Saul/Paul was a real person. His grave in Rome was never found, nor was the grave of his friend “Saint Peter”. The Book of Acts doesn’t even bother telling us what happened to Paul after he was sent to Rome for trial. Very strange.

Martin Luther was no friend to the Jews.