Sunday, the day of rest! with 300 years of persecution of the Christian faith, we have a lot to look back on and see with our relatively clear hindsight, the rather odd and even humorous reasons for why the Christians were persecuted. One of which I kid you not is that in the Roman Empire, the ruling bodies believed that the Christians were Cannibals! When the Christians would partake in the Lord's Supper, outsiders would hear the words "....eat of His flesh..." and would assume the worst. In addition to misconstruing the Sacrament, the act of adopting abandoned children was also amongst unusual acts in that time period. Families in that time would sometimes leave their children (usually girls since at this point in history women were not viewed as a supporting member of a family, especially young girls.) on the streets. To make it even worse, those outside the faith combined these two and suspected that the Christians were eating children and you get a massive twist of words and assumptions that lead to one of the many reasons the persecution.
On another note, I had the privilege to see The Social Network. A Harvard sophomore in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg with the help of his friend Edwardo and a few other connections, created the Infamous household website Facebook. The movie mostly revolves around the question of weather the intellectual property was actually that of Mark or other schoolmates. The physiological depiction of Mark was easy to mistake as unemotional, which to be honest was true. However, what is lost in emotion is shown in his context. The beautifully written script was both exuberant yet witty. Overall I recommend the movie to anyone who finds thinking movies to their liking.
I'm out!
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