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To: Land Shark who wrote (110522)	12/4/2007 8:06:14 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 173976

Christianity was just one religion among many in the Roman Empire. It did accept women and slaves with no social distinctions. The last pagan emporer, Julian, "professed admiration for the way in which Christians looked after their poor, their widows and orphans, and their sick and dying." Quote from D'Souza, What's So Great About Christianity. The Greco-Roman world, like all ancient empires, was a brutal place by modern standards. Infanticide, slavery, and use of children for sex (in brothels and by their teachers) was common and accepted. Slaves, captives of war, and animals were killed in Roman ampitheatres for the amusement of crowds and the most noble of classical writers and intellectuals saw nothing wrong with this. It was a world without compassion. There were no hospitals for the sick, no relief organizations for the distressed. All those things and the tremendous change in what we consider moral and immoral were products of Christianity.