Recent content by Roger Pearse

"The story of Christ's love lost something in the telling when put across by the Spanish Inquisition."

I don't know whether Plotinus has, but I have tried this, and indeed created a few articles myself. What tends to happen -- certainly on the Mithras article -- is that you get pitched into an edit war with some poster who knows nothing about the subject except a bit of hearsay and he...

I think that "early" tends to mean "ante-Nicene" to most people, so I would actually describe all this stuff as "late", myself. There are quite a lot of important differences between the two, and lots of people today don't really feel that the post-Nicene stuff is something they need to...

Did you look at the references, tho? The "references" are to other secondary sources, which give no ancient reference for their claims. Unless the authors of those secondary sources have a time machine, they have no direct way to know what happened. The fact is that the ancient sources do...