Isn’t there some quote about Christians being most vicious of all towards other Christians? Or maybe it’s a similar quote about another subject…
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
“Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.
– Emo Philips
Beautiful. XD
“Are you a Christian or a Jew?”
Altho I would have liked “Muslim” to appear there, at least.
It’s very dear to my heart - Ammianus Marcellinus, one of the last great pagan writers of the Roman Empire. “No wild beasts are so deadly to man, as Christians are to one another.”
Posted!
https://piefed.social/c/quotes@quokk.au/p/2164195/one-of-the-last-great-pagan-writers-of-the-roman-empire-pugjesus(let me know if anything needs correction, please)
The picture, strangely, is of a bust of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, who Marcellinus was deeply critical of.
And the quote doesn’t have a strong association with this painting, to my knowledge, just a common thread in Christian persecutions throughout history.
And… that’s what I get for not researching the pic properly.
Edit done on the post. Better?
Yep!
Funny enough, those cartoonishly massive eyes were a major feature of Late Roman imperial iconography. The Emperor is more than a mere mortal man, and he is always watching…
Ah, okay. I looked at half a dozen pics of Constantine and was teetering between the eyes being stylized or them actually being a physical feature of the man.
The Emperor is more than a mere mortal man, and he is always watching…
Not bad!
And come to think of it, maybe the original graphics creator chose Big C specifically as a critical object of Marcellinus’ quote and attitude. I haven’t quite seen that approach before in quote-graphics, but it has some legs, I suppose.
Check out this coin of Constantine I, straight-up proto-anime XD
Compare and contrast this deeply realistic depiction of Emperor Vespasian some ~250 years earlier:
And come to think of it, maybe the original graphics creator chose Big C specifically as a critical object of Marcellinus’ quote and attitude. I haven’t quite seen that approach before in quote-graphics, but it has some legs, I suppose.
That might be! I just felt the need to make the clarification upon seeing it, since that depiction of Constantine, in particular, is extremely famous.
