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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach middle school SS in a diverse community. Many of my students are from affluent families that aren’t particularly religious. I was surprised that so many were highly knowledgeable about Greco-Roman gods, but absolutely clueless about the major figures in the three Abrahamic faiths. I would encourage non-practicing and atheist families to at least acquaint their children with what others believe as these three religion have shaped modern history and still influence their children’s lives even if the family doesn’t believe the tenets. It also serves as social lubricant and helps in that offense is less likely to happen accidentally. 
 I’m totally cool if your child shares what you taught your child about Mithras, but referring to Christians as cannibals is just as uncool as saying Jews killed Jesus. For two centuries, the Romans persecuted Christians based on the cannibalism claim. [/quote]
You are a MS teacher? [b]Romans did not persecuted Christians for two centuries![/b] Do I have to tell you the heck why? There was no Western Roman Empire that lasted two centuries, and the East one didn't last 2 centuries either.  [/quote]

Pick up an AP history book. Look at the date when Constantine officially ended persecution of Christians.[/quote]

[i]Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire occurred intermittently over a period of over two centuries between the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD under Nero and the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, in which the Roman Emperors Constantine the Great and Licinius legalised the Christian religion.”[/i]
—Wikipedia

[i]Christians were first - and horribly - persecuted by the emperor Nero .

Christians were first, and horribly, targeted for persecution as a group by the emperor Nero in 64 AD. A colossal fire broke out at Rome, and destroyed much of the city. Rumours abounded that Nero himself was responsible. He certainly took advantage of the resulting devastation of the city, building a lavish private palace on part of the site of the fire.

Perhaps to divert attention from the rumours, Nero ordered that Christians should be rounded up and killed. Some were torn apart by dogs, others burnt alive as human torches.

Over the next hundred years or so, Christians were sporadically persecuted. It was not until the mid-third century that emperors initiated intensive persecutions.[/i]
—BBC

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