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Junior Member
Registered: 08-20-06
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Saturday 8/19 Military chan show on Rome, the narrator says a new threat to Rome, the cult of Christianity was about to emerge.

The show said Christ was a satanic cult leader who launched a new threat to Rome. Christians would meet secretly, engage in blood rituals, have orgies and murder children. Then the hypocrite Christians accused witches of doing the same thing and the hypocrites held mock trials to put the innocent witches to death.

So... this is the military channel?

Is this kind of sick, biased misinformation the military channel provides on all subjects? or is it only interested in mocking Christianity?
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Registered: 10-04-06
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Well, the Roman Empire did view Christianity like that, for a few reasons.

1 They recieved the "Body of Christ" and that he sacrificed himself. Therefore the Romans thought of the Christians as cannibals

2 Jesus preached to "love your brother", therefore the Romans thought they were, we'll lets not go there.

As far as the killing babies portion, perhaps the killing of the babies in the hunt for the baby Jesus? Or the killing of the firstborns at Passover?

And Jesus was a threat to Rome, it made alot of powerful people challenge their beliefs, such as the emperor is a god and polytheism. Christians were forced to meet in secret due to the persuctions.

It isn't biased or misinformation, it is certainly not mocking Christianity, but reaffirming its solid roots of faith.
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Registered: 11-09-06
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The point of that show was to look at things as the Romans saw them. To the nation of Rome, the Christains were a bunch of cultists and upstarts.
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Registered: 04-19-07
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Christians were not the only ones perceived as a threat. Druids were slaughtered wholesale, for example. Some, like the religion of Mithras, were persecuted but eventually came into favor just as Christianity did.
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