04-01-2016, 04:14 PM
(04-01-2016, 04:09 PM)fredtoast Wrote: In all seriousness all of the gospels that made the final cut placed a lot of emphasis on the crucifixion. The martyr element was very big in building early support for the Christian Church.
Like focus groups for slasher films today today, you couldn't spill too much blood for those early fans of the Christian Lit genre.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
