Growing Religious Threat

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8. Roman historian Tacitus mentions Jesus.

To be fair, he and other Roman historians (there are others) probably got whatever info they had about Jesus from Christians themselves. Christians were quite the noisy minority; what got them in trouble in the first place. In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius talks a bit about them, and I can't say he's wrong. If they'd gotten with the program, had allowed the Romans to put Jesus in the pantheon along with everyone else's gods, their lives might have been far different.

Interestingly, Jesus graffiti was found in an excavated Roman latrine within the last ten years or so. Some things never change.