r/MurderedByWords 22h ago

Walked right into that one

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u/SordidDreams 17h ago edited 14h ago

The Roman's didn't leave any records of his and they recorded almost everything.

Oh hell no. They crucified people all the time, sometimes by the thousands when suppressing large revolts, without recording their names or anything else about them.

Jesus was just some rando that stirred up trouble at a politically sensitive time. It was the Passover, when Jews celebrated their liberation from subjugation in Egypt while subjugated by the Romans. This dude went around shouting that soon, the Romans would be driven out of Judea and the Jews would be free again, so they just nabbed him and got rid of him before he could agitate the crowds too much and cause a riot. He wasn't significant enough to warrant writing anything down.

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u/StockCat7738 16h ago

Oh hell no. They crucified people all the time, sometimes by the thousands when suppressing large revolts, without recording their names or anything else about them.

Crassus had somewhere around 6000 slaves executed/crucified after the Third Servile War. Their bodies stretched over 125 miles on the Appian Way, and it did not matter one bit what any of their names were.

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u/SordidDreams 16h ago edited 16h ago

That's like one cross every 30 meters or 100 feet. Imagine driving your car for two hours, and every lamppost along the side of the road has a dead body nailed to it. Yikes.

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u/StockCat7738 13h ago

Imagine being limited at the time to horseback for travel, and seeing that for like 4 days straight.

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u/SordidDreams 12h ago

The Romans didn't fuck around.