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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (113238)	1/21/2008 6:09:02 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

re: "30,000 plus killed in panic....." How big was that temple?

To: one_less who wrote (113238)	1/21/2008 10:39:44 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

One more thing..... babtist = baptist

To: one_less who wrote (113238)	1/22/2008 1:39:13 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

The "Fart" heard round the world.....I'm still laughing.. I'm sorry but that story is so hilarious and ridiculous I can't believe anyone takes it seriously... A Roman soldier moons the crowd, blows gas, and causes a riot which kills 30,000+ panicked people? How big was that Temple.?....it takes a pretty good sized stadium to accommodate 30,000 people. For those who haven't read the account I'm talking about, the main excerpt is here: "a soldier watching over Jews celebrating the Passover at the Temple (according to historian Josephus, writing in about 90 C.E.) "raised his robe, stooped in an indecent attitude, so as to turn his backside to the Jews, and made a noise in keeping with his posture." This disrespectful gesture led to a riot and stampede that killed vast numbers of people: "Troops pouring into the porticoes, the Jews were seized with irresistible panic and turned to fly from the Temple and make their escape into town. But such violence as was used as they pressed around the exits that they were trodden under foot and crushed to death by one another; upwards of 30,000 perished, and the feast was turned into mourning for the whole nation and for every household into lamentation" (Josephus, Jewish Antiquities).