In a debate with George Smith over the merits of pagan Rome versus the Christian period that followed, Ralph Raico writes: “Men openly carried amulets of the male genitals around their necks and touched them often, for luck.”
Thank goodness that dreadful practice was replaced with amulets of a half naked man being tortured to death.
He’s not the Vicar of Christ, he’s a very naugthy boy!
It would have been nice if the ‘cleansing’ had targeted only the perpetrators, and not also the victims, of Roman oppression.
Ralph further writes: “The major Christian denominations were also oppressors, with the notable and noble exception of the Baptists ….”
As a resident of North Carolina for eight years and of Alabama for fifteen, I have the sad duty to report that the Baptists have managed to find their way into the oppression business.