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To: Fiji Hill
Adrian is a form of Hadrian, the name of one of the Roman Empire's "five good emperors" and is a name frequently found among early Christian churchmen.

Seeing as how Hadrian (rot his bones!) came about as close to extirpating Judaism from the earth as has ever been done by anyone, and his turning Jerusalem into a pagan Roman city, that certainly doesn't speak well of the early chrstians.

37 posted on 02/23/2013 7:01:51 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Don’t worry, ZC. Pope Adrian has nothing to do with Emperor Hadrian, or certainly the Romans could’ve kept their names identical. Hadrian was called a “good emperor” not because he was moral (he was likened to Nero) or pro-christian, but because the scandalous Macchiavelli who called him that simply thought he understood how to run an empire. The first Pope Adrian came 6 centuries later. Macchiavelli, who wrote the Prince to convince his king to abandon Corsica, admired Hadrian for solidifying his rule of those countries he could maintain, while abandoning those he could not.

Emperor Hadrian was far from the worst to the Christians, but he did continue to maintain the anti-Christian laws of emperor Nero, albeit with much less gusto.


78 posted on 03/08/2013 4:35:06 AM PST by dangus
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