Dave wrote:

I understand that watching Christians being fed to the lions was a very
popular spectator sport in Rome at one time, and that the sponsors of those
events were wildly popular.

There is no evidence that this ever happened. There was relatively
little persecution of the early Christians, and most incidents involved
individuals who were deemed enemies of the state for political, not
religious reasons.

If nothing else, the extremely small number of Christian in the First
Century and shortly thereafter made them hardly worth bothering with.
The is a saying amongst Biblical scholars (probably hyperbole) that "In
the year 100 there were 100 Christians."

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Dave wrote:

I understand that watching Christians being fed to the lions was a very
popular spectator sport in Rome at one time, and that the sponsors of
those
events were wildly popular.

There is no evidence that this ever happened. There was relatively little
persecution of the early Christians, and most incidents involved
individuals who were deemed enemies of the state for political, not
religious reasons.

If nothing else, the extremely small number of Christian in the First
Century and shortly thereafter made them hardly worth bothering with. The
is a saying amongst Biblical scholars (probably hyperbole) that "In the
year 100 there were 100 Christians."

And in the year 2009, there might actually be 2009 of them. I've seen scant
evidence of them, though.

Dave wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:30:41 -0500, jeff said:

There is no evidence that this ever happened.

You seem to have missed the point.

Why would you assume that I care about your point?

Dave wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:49:28 -0500, jeff said:

You seem to have missed the point.
Why would you assume that I care about your point?

Perhaps I give you too much credit for rationality.

Perhaps a relevant point if I had been engaged in this particular
discussion. However, I merely dropped in to shed a small bit of light
on an often misunderstood historical point.

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Dave wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:49:28 -0500, jeff said:

You seem to have missed the point.
Why would you assume that I care about your point?

Perhaps I give you too much credit for rationality.

Perhaps a relevant point if I had been engaged in this particular
discussion. However, I merely dropped in to shed a small bit of light on
an often misunderstood historical point.




Thank you Professor Jeff.

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Thank you Professor Jeff.

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Current child death count in the Gaza Concentration Camp = 410
(reported today on Al Jazeera)

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Thank you Professor Jeff.

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Current child death count in the Gaza Concentration Camp = 410
(reported today on Al Jazeera)



Terrible tragedy. Perhaps Hamas should continue to stop firing off rockets?

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Thank you Professor Jeff.

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Current child death count in the Gaza Concentration Camp = 410
(reported today on Al Jazeera)



Terrible tragedy. Perhaps Hamas should continue to stop firing off
rockets?


You are SO transparent. Hamas justifies Zionist genocide. Will you use
that the next time Zionists kill the kids in Lebanon, too, or will that be
a different non-Jewish group?

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Thank you Professor Jeff.

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Current child death count in the Gaza Concentration Camp = 410
(reported today on Al Jazeera)



Terrible tragedy. Perhaps Hamas should continue to stop firing off rockets?

While they're at it they could try not caching weapons in dugouts under
kindergartens. But then one of their best propaganda tools, (in their
training manuals at least) is to find ways to lure the Israelis into
killing their children.

Cheers
Martin

Larry wrote:
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Current child death count in the Gaza Concentration Camp = 410
(reported today on Al Jazeera)

The funny part about this and Larry's recent posts on this subject is
that you'd have to search long and hard to find any source anywhere
about world news, politics and such that Larry would believe isn't some
giant conspiracy, but Al Jazeera, known, proven liars, documented over
and over as fabricating facts, he believes like it's gospel, err,
written in stone, err, well, you know what I mean.

Stephen