XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/5/2026 12:08 AM, Samuel Spade wrote:   
   > "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.   
   >   
   > The first lines to read between, Mark's book, were written c. 70 CE,   
   > about 6 yearrs after the fire.  So there was time for early apostles to   
   > get together and get their story straight before they committted   
   > anything to writing.  Their early converts didn't need a well developped   
   > theology, they were just mysterrious strangerrs in the shadows.   
      
   The consensus is that Mark was composed between 65 and 80 CE, and that   
   he was probably not an eyewitness:   
      
   https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/mark.html   
      
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