On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:04:36 GMT, "Kirby Grant" <
KGr...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
>On 16-Aug-2012, BeamMeUpScotty <
ThenDestro...@blackhole.nebulax.com>
>wrote at alt.politics.liberalism:
>There has never been any reliable evidence that xtians were ever fed to the
>lions. They were killed in many other ways, but not by using lions. There is
>a chance that someone who just happened to be an xtian was fed to a lion,
>but it wasn't because they were a xtian - it would have been for some other
>reason like being a criminal, a political enemy of some leader, or because
>they were a slave and were forced into sporting games that sometimes
>included lions.
>
>As for the colleseum where supposedly so many xtians were killed for being
>xtians, that is all part of the myth as well. That type of thing did not fit
>into the way the colleum was used. It may be true that they were killed for
>sport in the nearby Circus Maximum, but even then it wouldn't have been by
>lions, it would have been deliberate murder by the hands of soldiers or
>something along those lines.
>
>I'm not sure why people keep repeating all of the myths. Yes, there were
>plenty of xtians who were killed for their religious beliefs. Yes, it was
>horrible. But there is simply a lack of credible evidence that any of it was
>done by feeding them to lions. What makes it all somewhat confusinjg is that
>writers back in the first few centuries of the C.E. perpetuated the myth
>based on word-of-mouth stories that could never be substantiated but whih
>were passed on as if they were true.
Ignorant peapoe deny AIDS spreads disproportionately (compared to the
other 96% of the population/no moral relative comparison) through
homosexual behavior too but yet the evidence is there for one to READ.