this kind of thing has always been here.
It is just now that instead of perhaps a couple hundred people knowing about it, due to the world of modern communications the entire flipping universe is now privy to the uninteresting and marginal piece of information and we are actually talking about it... although it is meaningless.
True.
The stories around Rome and the Caesars are not much different, but I’ll bet the common people of that day didn’t know about it.
The older I get and the more I see, the more I am appalled and astounded at what some people are going to have to answer for.
It makes marvel at the thought that Jesus was on the cross for only a few hours to pay for all that sin. And considering the filth and corruption, and suffering all of mankind has endured throughout the ages, it’s no wonder He was in such agony in the Garden.