[1000 silverlings]

Sorry Bro, not a road paved with anything but crucified Christians. Rome's strength in building an empire was to subjugate, brutally, all opposers, and they lined their Via Appias with our people. We are Israel, they are Esau.

To get the common people on their side (and their ONLY interest was in "tribute" or taxes, to incorporate them and their nations into the beast that was (is) Rome, they practiced syncretism, worship your idols, only, call them by our gods' names, so therefore Venus is Mary, Zeus is God, etc.

[Outership]

Yes, this is exactly right.

[roamer_1]

they practiced syncretism, worship your idols, only, call them by our gods' names, so therefore Venus is Mary, Zeus is God, etc.

Therein lies Roman Ecumenism.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I have to vote with 1000silverlings on this particular pavement debate. There was no one more ruthless than Rome. The same soldiers who crucified Christ; the same Roman citizens who fed Christians to the lions; the same mind as Machiavelli; all spring from the same corruption which leads away from the Triune God into the netherworld of death and despair.

And Rome has not changed.

Sorry Bro, not a road paved with anything but crucified Christians. Rome's strength in building an empire was to subjugate, brutally, all opposers, and they lined their Via Appias with our people. We are Israel, they are Esau.

To get the common people on their side (and their ONLY interest was in "tribute" or taxes, to incorporate them and their nations into the beast that was (is) Rome, they practiced syncretism, worship your idols, only, call them by our gods' names, so therefore Venus is Mary, Zeus is God, etc.

AMEN. Every word fact.

Read this informative link by Richard Bennett, former Roman Catholic priest, now reformed Christian, by, for and through the grace of God alone...

PAPAL ROME AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Here's Richard Bennett's great website, BereanBeacon.org