Philege wrote:
"The good thing about the Romans, is that they kept records."
And have you personally seen the Roman records?
Do you know anyone that has personally seen those Roman records?
If so name names and places. Those web sites are the antithesis of authoritative. The they are the moral equivalent to learning about Islam from bin Laden.
If you want to be taken seriously point me to an authoritative source of those records. And consider, too, that IT IS the Roman Catholic church, in that very same Rome to which you belong. The history of fraud, the history of murder, the history of deception is far better documented.
But as to my personal opinion. I do believe that someone was nailed on a cross. Was that person Jesus or some other hapless soul? No one can or will ever be able to say for sure.
But the one thing we can say for sure is that there is little less "Christian" in its behaviour than what happened in the Catholic Church for the first ~1,400 years thereafter.
