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I'm often critical of the way cable channels, like Discovery and History,
seem to skew newer documentaries along leftist lines, and this is
especially true in their treatment of Christianity. It is, for
example, through this venue that the movement to replace BC (Before Christ) with BCE
(Before the Common Era) emerged. This week I was surprised when, during a treatment on Roman emperors (I just traced back, and it must have been the Lost Worlds episode that aired last Sunday) we learn that Nero, looking for a scapegoat for the burning of Rome, settled on Christians. The narration went (paraphrased) -
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"Religious martyrdom is quite commonplace throughout history, even
today. But these apostles were the men who knew Christ, and knew
whether his resurrection was a fable, or not. It would be remarkable
that 10 of them would suffer agonizing martyrdom for a movement
they knew was based on a lie."
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Just so.
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