Posted: Sep 24, 2011 12:32 pm
falconjudge wrote:Wasn't there records of letters form some Roman general to... someone else, I forget, saying that "Christians should be treated more harshly when caught due to their rebellion"? I don't know, I just read that some where. Also, that the early Christians were predisposed to vandalism.
You know, Nero was actually kind of a nice guy, compared to his pop-cultural depiction...
I'm not sure I know which general you were talking about. Perhaps it involves Pliny the Younger who was proconsul of Bythinia and didn't know how he should act toward the confessed christians in his province. He was in his mind lenient toward them, but wrote to Trajan to ask for advice. (See the Wiki article here.)