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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3886798, member: 72790&quot;]I don&#039;t want to start an argument but I find that the estimate of a population of only seven or eight thousand Christians circa 100 AD to be quite low. If one goes back to 64 AD Nero could only make a claim that Christians had set the Great Fire seem plausible if there had been enough of them in the city to make themselves known as potential or actual arsonists. Yes, only a handful of arsonists would be required to set numerous fires but if there had not been a fairly large number of Christians within Rome the average Roman would have scratched his head wondering just what a Christian was. Nero does not seem to have had trouble pinning the fire on them so it seems to me that they must have been numerous enough to get noticed by those million inhabitants. Do you recall what the source of you population estimate was? Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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