Thus the good was done to all men, not merely to the household of faith. –          Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, third century The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium, by John Strickland In the aftermath of the notorious Spartacus rebellion, for instance, the road leading to Rome had been lined with no fewer than six thousand crucified slaves. Rome was a cruel society, albeit the Romans did not believe it to be.  They practiced their ethic, finding their behaviors to be quite moral.  As Strickland notes, “Roman statesmen were connoisseurs of cruelty,” and this cruelty was not limited to … Continue reading Christian Morality