Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sorry folks, it's NOT all relative. Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 90 06:58:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: The Theoretical Physics Cabal in Trinity College Dublin Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , timh@linus.uucp (Tim Hoogasian) wrote: >put his life on the line by boldly saying that. Have you forgotten that the >Romans put Christians into their Colesium (sp?) to be seen eaten by lions >for the crowds entertainment? Those bloody Romans! I had them figured as agents of Baalzebub the moment they set foot in Gaul. And how dare they set up an ordered society that vastly promoted the spread of Christianity, setting it apart from the other similiar Middle Eastern salvation cults that abounded at that time (Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism, etc). It's thanks to the Holy Roman Empire that Christianity survived at all. The Persians just weren't that tolerent. -- Mike Rogers, 6.3.3 TCD, D2, Eire. | Gardens of slime, rivers of muck, mike@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie (UNIX=>AOK)| Cast iron condoms, a telephone fu*k mike@tcdmath.uucp (UUCP=>oldie/goodie)| No private transport, no animals too, msrogers@vax1.tcd.ie(VMS => blergh) | the 21st century means melanomas for you