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I find it hard to believe the world is falling so fast.

I've noticed the same thing lately. It seems like the restraint is being lifted.

I noticed that Roman history is also being rewritten. I enjoy ancient history and try to catch some of the programs about ancient Greece and Rome. Rome's reputation is being rehabilitated. It is no longer the decadent, brutal civilization of Seneca, Cassius Dio and Pliny. It has become a glorius civilization in which the people prospered in freedom. Even Nero has become a poor misunderstood genius.

And, thanks to public education, we have a bunch of mush-heads eager to lap up the latest studio-created history.

Now what could possibly be the reason for rehabilitating Rome? Hmmmmm.

It seems like the restraint is being lifted.

I hadn't considered that... yet. It does seem to fit.

Now what could possibly be the reason for rehabilitating Rome? Hmmmmm.

It's really sad that folks I really care for can't see what's happening. It grieves my spirit beyond words, yet I'm comforted the Spirit helps in this weakness I have, in that He intercedes with groans that words cannot express (Romans 8:26).

I noticed that Roman history is also being rewritten. I enjoy ancient history and try to catch some of the programs about ancient Greece and Rome. Rome's reputation is being rehabilitated. It is no longer the decadent, brutal civilization of Seneca, Cassius Dio and Pliny. It has become a glorius civilization in which the people prospered in freedom. Even Nero has become a poor misunderstood genius.

Ha! In college, freeper Claud and myself had a running joke that someday academia would try to rehabilitate poor Caligula. Imagine, he could be looked at as disabled--mental illness is a disability, isn't it? And now that we are inching towards tolerance of all kinds of sexual perversion, including incest, who are we to judge that he married his sister? Finally, he was a champion of animal rights, having named Incitatus the horse to the Roman Senate. Hardly seems like the murderous, rapacious tyrannt that history has handed us, does he?