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On Good friday I mentioned an early piece of anti Christian graffiti from the second century was discovered in 1857 in a guardroom on Palatine Hill near the Circus Maximus in Rome, and is now in the Palatine Antiquarian Museum.
The graffitti shows a man with a donkey’s head being crucified, to which a youth is raising his hand as if in prayer. The text in Greek reads: ALEXAMENOS SEBETE THEON which means, "Alexamenos worships his god."
The graffitti shows a man with a donkey’s head being crucified, to which a youth is raising his hand as if in prayer. The text in Greek reads: ALEXAMENOS SEBETE THEON which means, "Alexamenos worships his god."
It is an oddity of history that christians embrace the cross, an instrument of capital punishment, as their symbol of their faith.
Minicius Felix wrote in those days "the religion of the Christians is foolish, in asmuch as they worship a crucified man, and even the instrument itself of his punishment. They are said to worship the head of a donkey , and even the nature of their father"
Christianity was "foolishness to Greeks" then and foolishness to most Aussies now.
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