Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (290)	8/9/2005 6:57:08 PM
From: exdaytrader76	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 520

I notice that you do not dispute your obvious distaste for Christianity. That's what this is really about. Using the links you provided, geocities.com "An often quoted exchange of letters in the year 112 between Pliny the Younger, the governor of Bithynia, a province in Asia Minor and the Emperor Trajan (c52-117) shows just how tolerant the Roman Empire was towards Christians. The governor wrote to the emperor asking for his advice on how to handle the Christians: It is my custom, Lord Emperor, to refer you to all questions whereof I am in doubt ... I have never participated in investigations of Christians; hence I do not know what is the crime usually punished or investigated; or what allowances are made ... Meanwhile this is the course I have taken with those who were accused before me as Christians. I asked them whether they were Christians, and I asked them a second and third time with threats of punishment. If they kept to it, I ordered them taken off for execution, for I had no doubt that whatever it was they admitted, in any case they deserved to be punished for obstinacy and unbending pertinacity ... As for those who said they neither were nor ever have been Christians, I thought it right to let them go, when they recited a prayer to the gods at my dictation, and made supplication with incense and wine to your statue ... and moreover, cursed Christ - things which (so it is said) those who were really Christians cannot be made to do." So, "deny your God or die" is tolerance? How can you possibly think that? How is execution "tolerant?" btw, Trajan told Pliny to keep up the good work.