The common people of Rome also, with their polytheistic ideas, abhorred the believers in the one God as atheists and enemies of the gods. They readily gave credit to the slanderous rumors of all sorts of abominations, even incest and cannibalism, practised by the Christians at their religious assemblies and love-feasts/orgies and regarded the frequent public calamities of that age as punishments justly inflicted by the angry gods for the disregard of their worship.
In North Africa arose the proverb: "If God does not send rain, lay it to the Christians." At every inundation, or drought, or famine, or pestilence, the fanatical populace cried: "Away with the atheists! To the lions with the Christians!"
Best chuckle had all day what a hoot , the more things change , the more they stay the same ...<laughing heartily >
tooo funny , Darwin was right ! ! |
