Julius
Clubman
posted 05-18-01 06:57 PM ET (US)
Does anyone have any info about the interactions between the Christians and the Romans? I came up with a good idea for a scenario and i was wondering if anyone has some info about how exactly the Romans treated the Christians. I know they were persecuted and fed to the lions in the colosseum and crucified, but does anyone know what else they were forced to do and what brought this all around? If anyone has the time, could you please give me the most background info on the roman empire and the Christians? Thanks alot.
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 05-21-01 08:28 PM
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BlitzkreigComin:
I'm not saying he believed in buddhism, only that he may have been influenced by it. Some of the people he was studying with (well, more like having a convention with) were probably inspired by his ideas and background as well.
As for the conquest thing, I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding there. What I meant was that he may have been trying to get the romans *out*, and what he was doing was a very good way to start. You can force invaders out without invading their country you know. For an example of what I think he may have been trying to do, look at Ghandi - peaceful revolution. Maybe he was also trying to make it a democracy, and people tend to try and make their liberator into a king; if he didn't want that, dying (or faking death) and leaving a council of about a dozen as 'successor' may have been the best way out.
Was he teaching the learned men at the temple? Were they really listening? I heard they didn't like his views at all, even reacting rather negatively.
As for prophesizing his own death, the virgin birth, and all that... keep in mind that Jesus himself never wrote down his ideas, nevermind an auto-biography. The bible was written and re-copied (possibly with modifications) by romans. The fact that for a long time it was in latin (not Jesus and friends' likely native aramaic) should be a dead giveaway. Even if you're not roman catholic per se, protestant religions are derived from it; they didn't get their material from the original source. So really it's not even sure that Judas and Thomas were separate people, or that the former wasn't related to Jesus.
"Oh, a cute little tadpole!" - "A fish!" - "A dolphin!" - "A SHARK!!!" - "SHARKS!!! SHARKS!!! SHARKS!!!" - Otherwise known as the story of the deadly tadpole.
Danielthemaster
Clubman
posted 05-27-01 05:58 PM
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Your all wrong Jesus was born In 5BC, since King Herod died in 4BC, Blame the monk dustan for our extremely bad dating system, the millenium was before the so called year 2000 really.
Julius
Clubman
posted 05-27-01 09:35 PM
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What the hell happened? I thought this thread was finally finished and you guys are still going on about this??
peter
HG Alumnus
posted 05-28-01 07:20 AM
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Lol - That's what ppl call hypercorrect - and please remember that I read Dutch papers, they write Kashmir too - then I thought that might be the Dutch spelling instead of the English. That's because the Dutch are pedantic enough to have their own spelling for geographical names - come to think of it, so have are other people (not meaning the personally btw).