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Re: just when you`re ready...
Posted by parhad (Guest) - Saturday, July 31 2004, 19:55:13 (CEST)
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Paul Younan wrote:
>Hi Farid,
>
>Yes, what I am saying is that Rome never ruled Assyria, per se. Trajan briefly defeated the Parthian Persian empire and entered Mesopotamia for 2 years 116-117 AD. But Trajan was a vehement anti-Christian, as was the entire empire at that early period.

...Trajan was NOT anti-Christian...as letters between he and Pliny the Younger show quite clearly. He advised Pliny to by NO means go seeking our Christoi to persecute or molest in any way...but should those nut jobs insist on making themselves known and defying the authorities in order to GET martyred..they were to be asked only to light a stick of incense to the Emperor...in other words, show some respect for the gods or beliefs of others while being given the freedom to keep their own beliefs privately....if on the THIRD time they refused, then the full force of the Law, including death, was to be brought to bear, but under no circumstances against children...as would happen in ANY country...and as you well know your own popes and most Christian kings visited unbelievable cruelty on innocent people who WERE Christians...just the "wrong" kind.

...Julian the Apostate who tried to save us all from your Christ...tried vainly to restore Paganism..and was as saintly a man as Jesus ever was..and an emperor at that. No one...NO ONE killed more Christians than the Romans did when they BECAME Christians.
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>Here is a map of the expansions of the Roman empire. Notice that Assyria lay in the territory of the Parthian (later, Sassanid) Persian empire.

...nice map.
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>The theory that we were forced into Christianity by Rome is impossible. We lived in a different empire, until Mohammed came along and defeated both the Byzantine (neo-Roman empire) and the Sassanid Persian empire.

...the Roman Empire was more than Rome...I should have been more specific, never dreamed anyone was reading.

...based on your information I would say that the Christians in Mesopotamia weren`t Assyrians of any kind to begin with...simply all those heretics born and bred in Byzantium the Byzantines chased into BetNahrain. You have absolutely no way of knowing those original Christians weren`t Jews escaping persecution for being Christian. In fact, you have no way of knowing anything...it is your fond desire that you are descended from SOMEBODY and making your CHRISTIAN faith...of ALL things...PROOF POSITIVE that you MUST have been Assyrians is about as idiotic a "logical thing" or faith-based absurdity as one can imagine...but now that you aren`t afraid to talk...tell me, how does speaking a church liturgical language...even in your homes and families make you Assyrian today? How?
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>Shlame,
>Paul



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