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"We walked up to the prisoner's dock. All the others when questioned admitted their guilt. Then, when it came to my turn, my father appeared with my son, dragged me from the step, and said: 'Perform the sacrifice - have pity on your baby!'
Hilarianus the governor . said to me: 'Have pity on your father's grey head; have pity on your infant son. Offer the sacrifice for the welfare of the Emperors'.
'I will not' I retorted.
'Are you a Christian?' said Hilarianus.
And I said: 'Yes, I am'
Then Hilarianus passed sentence on all of us; we were condemned to the beasts, and we returned to prison in high spirits."
If there's one thing I love, it's stories of an ancient suicide cult.
I dunno man. Life back then sucked for everyone.So was this written back in the Pauline days when the two most joyous things a Christian could do would be
1. Never have sex
2. Get martyred
?
If life sucked so much back then, I wonder why so many fundamentalist Christians are trying to drag the world back there.
You´ve lost me here already.Apparently stories about forgiveness offend some people when they're not written as a documentary.
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I believe he is lamenting that people didn't take his last story/thread as a wonderful inspiring story about Christianity, but distrusted the author (due to multiple flaws, and the author selling a book about this).You´ve lost me here already.
Ancient Rome was one of the safest and prosperous places to live in all of antiquity. For the average citizen, little hardship was encountered unless one was born at the death of the western empire.
And built on the backs of countless dead.
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