[donmeaker]

Tacitus alludes to the death of Christ and to the existence of Christians at Rome. See Annals XV,44: But not all the relief that could come from man, not all the bounties that the prince could bestow nor all the atonements which could be presented to the gods, availed to relieve Nero from the infamy of being believed to have ordered the conflagration, the fire of Rome. Hence to suppress the rumor, he falsely charged with the guilt, and punished with most exquisite tortures, the persons commonly called Christians, who were hated for their enormities. Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius: but the pernicious superstition, repressed for a time, broke out again, not only through Judea, where the mischief originated, but through the city of Rome also.

But this testimony is not by an eye witness. Rather, he reports the common rumor, years later. If you accept this testimony, you have to accept the term 'enormities' for the early Christians.

[Elsie]

Rather, he reports the common rumor, years later.

I guess you claim there was NO basis for this 'rumor'.

Tom and you are in the same boat:

 

John 20:24-31

 

 ²⁴But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

 ²⁵So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

 ²⁶After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”

 ²⁷Then He said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

 ²⁸Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

 ²⁹Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

 ³⁰Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

 ³¹but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.