it s a dangerous, tumultuous time in the roman empire. nowhere more so than in the province of judea on the far edge of the mediterranean. its capital, the holy city of jerusalem, is teeming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to the romans, he s political trouble, so they crucify him. the followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive after jesus? today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. but perhaps it s a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. this region
jerusalem, is teeming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to the romans, he s political trouble, so they crucify him. the followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive after jesus? today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. but perhaps it s a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. this region, jerusalem and judea, represented an important land bridge between syria and egypt. so throughout history, this has been a critical place. jerusalem had been the holy
straight towards eternal damnation. and john list was coming under intense pressure from another corner as well. john list had a financial problem. there is no question about that. he had mortgaged the house to the hilt. he had trouble keeping jobs. he had been unemployed for long periods of time. he also had a problem, obviously, dealing with people. it s one of the reasons he would lose his job. he just wasn t a people person. he would work in finance and where a personality was a necessary part of your job and he couldn t function. john list s financial problems were putting an enormous strain on him, a strain later reflected in the written confession he left at the murder scene. i wasn t earning anywhere near enough to support us, list wrote. everything i tried seemed to fall to pieces. true, we could have gone bankrupt and may gone on welfare. apparently, he didn t feel he
governor schwarzenegger in california cause young people to become more aggressive and it contributes to juvenile crime. today by a vote of 7-2 the supreme court said that california law is unconstitutional. it said that states have no power to restrict access of minors to material including violence that the only categories the supreme court has ever set off from minors is obscenities, fighting words and. scalia a colorful majority opinion here, he says we ve been giving children books full of violence from time in mother yal. grimm s fairry tale baked their captors he cites homer and virgil with eternal damnation and high school reading lists. the killing of one of the people
up. it s mother church praying. the church, the bride of christ. and not just any bride, but the only bride church leaders preached, the one true religion that can save you from eternal damnation. christianity claims to be the only right religion, but in the roman empire, in fact, this was a unique phenomenon. christianity was monotheistic to the extent that it claimed that if you worship our god, you have to give up all the others. this meant that as soon as christianity converted somebody to this new faith, it destroyed the other religions in its wake. over the next 100 years, christianity not only survived, but thrived in the roman empire. and by the end of the 3rd century emperor dioclesian whose own wife and daughter may have converted to the religion, was so threatened by the growing power of christianity that he launched yet another campaign to wipe it out. the empire at this time was maybe 60 million people, so