Rome burned: An intemperate comparison

[Patriot]

The only thing that could be more disturbing would be if the Christians had sat about cheering Nero and ignoring the fire...

During the night of July 18, 64 AD, fire broke out in the merchant area of the city of Rome. Fanned by summer winds, the flames quickly spread through the dry, wooden structures of the Imperial City. Soon the fire took on a life of its own consuming all in its path for six days and seven nights. When the conflagration finally ran its course it left seventy percent of the city in smoldering ruins.

Rumors soon arose accusing the Emperor Nero of ordering the torching of the city and standing on the summit of the Palatine playing his lyre as flames devoured the world around him. These rumors have never been confirmed. In fact, Nero rushed to Rome from his palace in Antium (Anzio) and ran about the city all that first night without his guards directing efforts to quell the blaze. But the rumors persisted and the Emperor looked for a scapegoat. He found it in the Christians, at that time a rather obscure religious sect with a small following in the city. To appease the masses, Nero literally had his victims fed to the lions during giant spectacles held in the city's remaining amphitheater...

Of course, there is the part where Nero had a new Economic Redevelopment Plan ready to go.  Would a powerful politician destroy the present in order to create his/her own new future?

Pass the popcorn to those folks over there, please.


Full article: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rome.htm

[thatsMRSc2u]

  Yes a politician would.....and you are seriously deluded if you dont think YOUR side would be standin there fannin the flames lookin for THEIR payoff.

[Patriot]

...and you are seriously deluded if you dont think YOUR side would be standin there fannin the flames lookin for THEIR payoff.

Anyone standing around fanning fire with one hand out under those circumstances wouldn't be on my 'side'.  My 'side' would likely be engaged in one of three activities:  1) Putting water on the fires, 2) Treating injuries/consoling, feeding and sheltering victims, 3) Hunting down and stringing up the responsible politicians.  So call me deluded.  Where would you be?

[thatsMRSc2u]

  Helpin my neighbors and plannin the revolt.