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@Koiju :About Nero : I read a few months ago the biography "Nero" by Sueton. Nero is such a [self-censoring script takes over] , I would really, *really* like the absolutely rudest words to describe this decadent roman Emperor. I hate him.



"Nero, always a man desparate to be popular, therefore looked for scapegoats on whom the fire could be blamed. He found it in an obscure new religious sect, the Christians.
And so many Christians were arrested and thrown to the wild beasts in the circus, or they were crucified . Many of them were also burned to death at night, serving as 'lighting' in Nero's gardens, while Nero mingled among the watching crowds.
It is this brutal persecution which immortalized Nero as the first Antichrist in the eyes of the Christian church. (The second Antichrist being the reformist Luther by edict of the Catholic Church.)", a quote from my paper. its somewhat plagerized, i must say.