Would you care to address the rest of that post, which explained why he considers you to be "one of the most deliberately historically ignorant people [he has] ever come across"?
*scratches furiously into a lead tablet* Oh woe is me! May he who has stolen DOC from me become as liquid as water... who has stolen it or her, for the unbearable length of nearly a month?! Julius Caesar!
For those now scratching their heads, the above is a parody one of the most famous curses found at Bath, directed to the goddess Sulis, and is quoted
from this page here... which also includes this relevant quote;
The Roman empire was based on two things: lip service to the emperor, and payment to the army. As long as you acknowledged the imperial cult and paid your taxes, Rome did not really care how you lived your life.
And then, there's this relevant one too;
Both Rome and Britain had polytheistic religions, in which a multiplicity of gods could be propitiated at many levels. At one end of the spectrum were the official cults of the emperor and the Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, linked to other Olympian gods like Mars. At the other end, every spring, every river, every cross-roads, lake or wood had its own local spirit with its own local shrine. The Romans had no problem in combining these with their own gods, simply associating them with the god(s) or goddess(es) who most resembled them.
So... which explanation for this claim... "So it would have made perfect sense for the Romans and others not to blab about the resurrection." ... do we think is more likely?
A.) The Roman's were so terrified of somebody other than Jupiter who claimed to be able to perform miracles (even if he also said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's") that they didn't even
dare mention what those miracles actually were...?
B.) The Roman's had no problem at all with someone believing that, and after all they did pay their taxes, there's hardly very many of them, and you can find another God just like him on any street corner, so why bother talking about them all that much?
or, and this is my personal selection,
C.) Most of the greats in Roman history had been accused by the Christians of the time of being Off Topic and Derailing The Scrolls, and had then thrown an enormous immature hissy fit, declaring they wouldn't pay any attention to any Christian at all until at least the 1st of September 2010. But unfortunately the Roman Empire had fallen by then, so we thus have no Roman sources on the Christian faith.
