XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/4/2026 1:50 PM, chine.bleu wrote:   
   > Samuel Spade wrote:   
   >>> Before there were lines to read between, the story was widespread and   
   >>> >accepted.   
   >>   
   >> That totally must be true.  It said so in the gospels!   
   >>   
   >>> >   
   >   
   > Hard to know who was deluded. It remains the story spread, and people   
   > would die for it. That has to be accounted for. Anti-god botherrers   
   > simply deny it. It is not clear Rome was burned by christians, but they   
   > were well enough known to be blamed.   
   >   
      
   It is just a myth that the Romans persecuted the early Christians.   
   Granted, Nero did persecute them during his reign as scapegoats, but it   
   was not until centuries later that persecutions of Christians become   
   widespread throughout the Empire.   
      
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