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re: Listening to a podcast, guys says the holocaust is worst crime in history: agree or no?
Posted on 9/20/18 at 9:09 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 9/20/18 at 9:09 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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For the record, it was actually Hadrian that oversaw the response to the Third Revolt. Trajan was (for his time) relatively lenient towards Christians. He didn’t actively seek them out and prosecute them as long as they gave the correct respect due the emperor (his letters with Pliny are a good first hand account) and as I understand it, some modern scholars think he had some closet Christians in his staff and confidence. Hadrian was a totally different animal when it came to Christians, not least because of his Grecophilia.
Trajan was the general who put down the Jewish revolt for his father Vespasian which is one of the things he did that made him so popular. And Hadrian oversaw the Third Jewish revolt because Trajan died before he could put it down.
Also there are many primary sources of Trajan telling his governors to “offer the Christians a chance to deny their god” and if they don’t then execute them. I know that’s par for the course for that time but still doesn’t make him a sympathetic figure to Christians of the time
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Posted on 9/20/18 at 9:18 pm to Tiger1242
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Trajan was the general who put down the Jewish revolt for his father Vespasian which is one of the things he did that made him so popular. And Hadrian oversaw the Third Jewish revolt because Trajan died before he could put it down.
I think you’re thinking of Titus. Trajan was a teenager when Vespasian ruled and didn’t come to power until his late 40’s.
The Third Revolt didn’t even begin until about a decade into Hadrian’s reign.
The sources for Trajan regarding Christians more or less imply that he told his governors to ignore them unless they caused significant social disruption. It’s hard for us to imagine today, and I say this as a Christian, but they were the radicals of their day. They very often did not go quietly into the night. Trajan’s approach was pretty lenient compared to his predecessors and successors.
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