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@RobertEllsberg

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Much is made of Trump’s self-congratulatory Nero meme, and the legend that Nero played the lyre as Rome burned. But there is more to the story. To deflect blame for the fires—which many believed Nero had started—he cast blame on Christians and launched a cruel persecution.

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@RobertEllsberg

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He used this as an occasion for sport in the arena, or burning their bodies as nighttime lamps. Tacitus notes that this had the effect of increasing sympathy for the Christians “who were being sacrificed to one man’s brutality rather than to the National interest.”

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