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up in the same place they started from. The

same thing was in the first century. Instead of

horses, we've got motors with horsepower

today.

The gladiators were inhumane. They were

brutal in the arena. I could spend one hour or

more just on the gladiator games. A multitude

of men and animals died every year in these

games. They were condemned criminals that

died in these games, servants, slaves that died in

these games, captives of war that were made to

fight one another and fight animals, and then the

persecuted Christians. Christians were sometimes

martyred in these games in these stadiums. In

the arena, murder was the practiced art at that

time, man and beast sacrificed to the blood-

thirsty crowd in these arenas. They even

imported exotic animals to slaughter. They took

lions and panthers and ostriches and bears and

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