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Could you imagine being Greek and meeting a Christian in, like, 80 AD? (hexbear.net)
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"So yeah the son of God was on earth, but you just missed him. He was crucified about 50 years ago. Your dad might've met him."

And then Mount Vesuvius fucking explodes

Edit: I meant Roman, I wrote this late at night.

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[โ€“] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm so interested in this stuff. I found it fascinating reading Graeber's Debt when he talks about how a lot of words relating to sin, transgression, etc. have very old etymologies linking them directly to the concept of debt.