Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Quote: Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan

On Christianity,

Accordingly, I judged it all the more necessary to find out what the truth was by torturing two female slaves who were called deaconesses. But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pliny1.html

Christianity: depraved, excessive superstition since 111 CE.

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