Did the Romans crucify women naked?
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To the best of my knowledge, no woman was ever crucified by the Romans, never mind their state of undress.  In general, the Romans avoided public nudity except in certain circumstances such as the baths, and they disliked exposing women to public scrutiny.  I can't think of any public executions of women off the top of my head.  The only thing that comes close is a tradition wherein the widowed wife of the deceased would throw herself upon his funeral pyre.  However, the only references I know of this are from poetry, not histories.\n\nFor a time Christians were persecuted and treated to death, and probably some Catholic sources can name them and describe in detail the tortures they suffered.  However, many classical historians question the veracity of these documents.  Except in a few special circumstances, Christians were executed in the games, usually torn apart by beasts or slain by a gladiator.  It is entirely possible that some of these were women, but highly unlikely that they would have gone unclothed.  Still, it is an intriguing question.
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No, I would not, Jesus said those without sin cast the first stone, so therefore I wouldn't.\nStoning was very popular 2,000 years ago as well as strangulaton and many others.\nWhen Rome came into rule Their justice was more severe they made you suffer for your crime(s)
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Many of the entomology's will say it is from late french writing about prostitutes.  But I don;t buy it.\n\nSeveral years ago I was reading an early (1st century) roman text. It had the a word similar to pornia or pornios or in it. ( I can't remember and it wasn't important to what I was doing) I tried to find the word in dictionaries but it wasn't there. It was obvious from the context the word had something to do with pictures. The current Latin dictionaries do not have any words for picture or anything like it. If you go back to roman ruins you can see that they had the most extensive art it the history of the world to that point, and no word for "picture" ? (" pictura" latin for paint is the root of our word picture but Romans had pictures as well and where is that word?) \n\n I stick with a Latin root I am willing to bet no one has done the necessary footwork to document it. Pictures of sex have been around for a couple of thousand years and the Romans didn't miss a beat when it came to anything of perversion or commerce. \n\nThe late 19th century explanation is just plain wrong. The word is much older than that.
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He was crucified because the men of that day, the ones with power to lose, wanted him out of the picture.  Plain and simple. He was preaching love one another and share your wealth and turn the other cheek ( I do have a problem with that last one) and they felt threatened, so they put pressure to have him removed.  Hard core politics. Personally, I feel the bible was written by men to control men. Not in a bad way but in a way to set a standard by which we can live. And if we follow these standards, we will mostly, remain within the law and not hurt one another nor upset the 'upper crust's' apple cart. That is the way they want it.  Then and now. God did not sit down with Moses and have him carve out 10 rules to live by. (Only 10?)  Tell you what, go to Washington D.C. and tell the world what an idiot the president is.  You have a right to speak out, you may not be lying, and you certainly have not sinned, but there will be those who will want you removed. And you will be. Although today you will not be crucified, only evacuated.
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I don't agree, because I have not seen a temple built on a sewer, so I do not have anything to compare a woman to...but here is the full quote:\n\nTertullian (160?-220?): "Woman is a temple built over a sewer, the gateway to the devil. Woman, you are the devil's doorway. You led astray one whom the devil would not dare attack directly. It was your fault that the Son of God had to die; you should always go in mourning and rags."
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No, and not even the virgins.  Nowhere in the Quran is this mentioned.  This was an innovation made up by the pagans after the death of the Prophet (PBUH).  You won't find that anywhere in the Quran, and if it's not there or does not say the same, it must not be followed.
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I don't know about the Romans, but in these modern times there are several products such as certain perfumes and make-ups that are made from pee. Use your search engine and you'll see what I mean.
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A historical/anthropological answer might go along the lines of:\n\nHomosexuality was rife in Greek and Roman societies as it was in many other pagan societies. The early Judeans opposed Greek and Roman oppression and occupation and responded by targeting the fabric of their society by making Laws or interpreting laws (e.g. idol worship became blasphemous, homosexuality became an abomination and women were not to be treated as slaves - tho the Bible records periods when this was not the case - and some traditions continued to view women as second class citizens).\n\nThen came the Christian era.\n\nThis semi-monotheistic faith saw the bible as a pic-n-mix. One minute the Law dictated to Moses at Mount Sinai is what makes you a sinner and you dont need the Law anyway cos belief in Jesus is all that is required, the next your actions and behaviour are all important when certain things offend Paul (e.g. women and homosexuals).\n\nIf it werent for Pauline Christianity, Christianity today would either follow the Law more closely like Judaism (and thus still be a sect of Judaism) or it would have only two rules (love God and your neighbour) and no Law.\n\nThe reason for this schism is the dilemma that faced Paul. On the one hand, Paul sought to form a new religion (after his attempts to 'convert' Jews were unsuccessful) but also needed the "old" one for legitimacy (it was the one God of Israel that gave the Law at Mount Sinai, how could Paul - a mere mortal - cancel the Law of God given to man at Mount Sinai? Interestingly in the original Greek texts, one way Paul got around this was to express that he was the reincarnation of Jesus and therefore also the son of God).\n\nIf you want to read more on whether it was Jesus or Paul who invented Christianity, see the links below.\n\nFinally, I'd like to say that whatever people believe about your sexuality, it is just their belief. You should stick two fingers up to them and get on with your life. There's a reason you were created the way you were - it's just a shame these religions can't appreciate that. However, that is their limit, not yours.
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jesus fornicating cristo
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I am not one, but want to address your question:\n\nExodus 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery.\n\nLeviticus 20:10  And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.\n\nDeuteronomy 5:18  Neither shalt thou commit adultery.\n\nProverbs 6:32  But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.\n\nJeremiah 3:8  And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.\n\nJeremiah 3:9  And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.\n\nJeremiah 5:7  How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.\n\nJeremiah 7:9  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;\n\nJeremiah 23:14  I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.\n\nJeremiah 29:23  Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.\n\nEzekiel 16:32  But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!\n\nEzekiel 23:37  That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.\n\nHosea 4:2  By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.\n\nHosea 4:13  They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.\n\nHosea 4:14  I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.\n\nMatthew 5:27  Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:\n\nMatthew 5:28  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.\n\nMatthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.\n\nMatthew 19:9  And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.\n\nMatthew 19:18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,\n\nMark 10:11  And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.\n\nMark 10:12  And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.\n\nMark 10:19  Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness,
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Lev.18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Lev.18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Lev.18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: \n\nLev.20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.\n\nAbomination (Hebrew, toebah) disgusting morally, an abhorrence.\n\nAbhorrence, a feeling of repugnance or loathing.\n\nDeut.23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Deut. 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.\n\nSodomite (Hebrew, qadesh) male prostitute, licentious, unclean.\nDog (Hebrew, keleb) male prostitute, (dog) position.\n\nJob 36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. \n\nUnclean (Hebrew, qadesh) male prostitute, licentious.\n\nLicentious, lacking moral discipline especially in sekual conduct. \n\nRom.1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. \n\nBecame vain (Greek, mataioo) foolish, morally wicked.\n\nRom.1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, \n\nBecame fools (Greek, moraino) literally were fooled by their perverted mind.\n\nRom.1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: \n\nUncleanness (Greek, akatharsia) impurity, physically or morally\n\nRom.1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: \n\nVile affections (Greek, atimia) passions of infamy (disgrace).\n\nRom.1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. \n\nUnseemly (Greek, aschemosune) indecency, shame.\n\nRom.1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; \n\nReprobate (Greek, adokimos) rejected, worthless, castaway.\n  \nRom.1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. \n\nI Cor.6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,  I Cor.6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. \n\nEffeminate, having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men.\n\nNor abusers of themselves with mankind (Greek, arsenokoites) sodomite.\n\nI Tim.1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;\n\nDefile themselves with mankind (Greek, arsenokoites) sodomite.
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I've never seen that in the Bible... perhaps you should ask the person that said it, and if he or she can back it up, let me know so I can study it. Thanks.\n\nWell, now that he has posted it, it can be explained, as I have in fact read it.\n\nKeep in mind that "lie" does not mean "rape" it means sex whether consensual or not.\n\n[23] If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;\n[24] Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.\n\nThis is not saying that the girl was raped - it is talking about a girl that makes no objection to lying with the man when if she didn't want to lie with him, she could object and try get help since she was in a populated area. She is having consensual adulterous sex.\n\nIf she objected, fought, screamed, cried out, then she would not be held responsible. All the women in the area knew this, as it was part of the law. Because of the culture and the value of a woman's virginity, a woman would have cried out and struggled violently with a man who was raping her to try and get help - just as any woman would do today if she were in a populated area where help was available.\n\nYou'll notice that in the following verses, the woman is presumed innocent if the event occurred in an isolated area even if it cannot be proved that she made an objection, because there was no one to help her. The man is put to death for adultery, since she was betrothed.\n\nIn the last verses, if a man and a woman have sex, and she is not betrothed but is a virgin, then he has to marry her. This is to protect the woman - no one afterwards would have married her and taken care of her. It was meant to discourage men from taking advantage of girls, or being "players" so to speak.
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Rom 1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: \n\n\n Rom 1:27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. \n\n\n Rom 1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; \n\n\n Rom 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, \n\n\n Rom 1:30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, \n\n\n Rom 1:31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: \n\n\n Rom 1:32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them
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No. \n\nThis was added in to compete with other religions. The area was a hotbed of cults at the time. Many of them claimed their deities were born of virgins. It was the 'in' thing to show the purity of your deity. Skip that whole 'who's your daddy?' question. No sex? Had to be a god!\n\nJesus was born of a virgin. Some claim Buddha was virgin born. Heimdall, on the other hand, was born of nine virgins...which creates more questions than it answers.\n\nLMAO at teeney111's answer. The girl is not even reading own bible which has numerous incidents of sex without marriage. No taboo has ever been strong enough to stop illegitimate births happening.
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I LOVE this question!  I have been asking it for 40 years!\n\nIn summary, antiquated religious belief systems say women's breasts are sexual but men's are not.  This, of course, is ridiculous.  I say, "YES!  By all means, make men wear tops at the beach or let women remove theirs.  What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as the old saying goes."\n\nSadly, they won't learn a thing from it.  Too many people are still too Victorian in their thinking to accept the naked woman's upper body as wholesome and natural.
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Do they really do that? In the Old Testament, that practice was required, and if the girl could not prove her virginity, she was put to death. It has to do with the breaking of the hymen, but many girls don't even have one--but I guess BibleGod was not aware of that when he made up those rules.
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Adam and eve were created nude.\nIt is the lust with evil eyes which forced human beings to seek covers in various ways.