[donh]

I guess all of human history is a "conspiracy" in your mind. Obviously Constantinople believed his mother's excursions of excavations in Jerusalem instead of some "conspiracy".

Come now. Who just got through explaining that the 500 witnesses to the Resurrection were tortured to death to hide some great secret Was that you or me?

[rollo tomasi]

They were not tortured by hiding some great secret. Just the opposite, they saw history, spread what they saw and were punished for it.

Were they insane and tortured for a lie or did they believe what they saw with their own two eyes and communicated loudly in fear of death?

Also that "conspiracy" sure did spread. First 300 years of persecution and the "conspiracy" still survived? Must have been a lot of insane people be willingly tortured to death for a lie then.