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To: cloudmountain

Well I put way more in Josephus’ description of the devastation of Jerusalem than any commercial tourist trap babble.

We know from recorded history that Constantine’s mother had a number of false relics erected in Jerusalem, many of them being worshiped as “stations of the cross” and other such deception.
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79 posted on 04/15/2014 7:55:05 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
Well I put way more in Josephus’ description of the devastation of Jerusalem than any commercial tourist trap babble. We know from recorded history that Constantine’s mother had a number of false relics erected in Jerusalem, many of them being worshiped as “stations of the cross” and other such deception.

Fine, you gainsay what the rest of the world says today, with all their archeological evidence. The entire world is wrong about this and you, a 21st century person, know better. Would you even believe the Romans? I doubt it.

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From the Internet:
Flavius Josephus fully defected to the Roman side and was granted Roman citizenship. He became an advisor and friend of Vespasian's son Titus, serving as his translator when Titus led the Siege of Jerusalem, which resulted—when the Jewish revolt did not surrender—in the city's destruction and the looting and destruction of Herod's Temple (Second Temple).
Josephus recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the first century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, including the Siege of Masada, but the imperial patronage of his work has sometimes caused it to be characterized as pro-Roman propaganda.

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Josephus: pro-Roman propagandist. I rest my case.
Ave Cæsar

86 posted on 04/15/2014 8:25:15 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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From the Internet:

Flavius Josephus fully defected to the Roman side and was granted Roman citizenship. He became an advisor and friend of Vespasian's son Titus, serving as his translator when Titus led the Siege of Jerusalem, which resulted—when the Jewish revolt did not surrender—in the city's destruction and the looting and destruction of Herod's Temple (Second Temple).
Josephus recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the first century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, including the Siege of Masada, but the imperial patronage of his work has sometimes caused it to be characterized as pro-Roman propaganda

88 posted on 04/15/2014 8:29:15 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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