{"id":269,"date":"2010-06-25T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2010-06-25T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:20:47","slug":"the-world-turned-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/the-world-turned-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Turned Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book of Acts records the conflict between the first Christians and the pagan communities they were evangelizing. Those communities said they were advocating customs unlawful for Romans to adopt (<a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=144482593\">Acts 16:20<\/a>), that they were &#8220;turning the world upside down&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=144482627\">Acts 17:6<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what they meant by that?<\/p>\n<p>An article in the BBC News today describes the excavation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science_and_environment\/10384460.stm\">mass burial of 97 infants<\/a> in the Thames Valley of England. Archaeologists believe might have been a brothel. Key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd infanticide may not have been as shocking in Roman times as it is today.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeological records suggest infants were not considered to be &#8220;full&#8221; human beings until about the age of two, said Dr Eyers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear it for turning the world upside down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book of Acts records the conflict between the first Christians and the pagan communities they were evangelizing. Those communities said they were advocating customs unlawful for Romans to adopt (Acts 16:20), that they were &#8220;turning the world upside down&#8221; (Acts 17:6). Have you ever wondered what they meant by that? An article in the &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/the-world-turned-upside-down\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,7,8,16,664,167,265,54],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apologetics","tag-archaeology","tag-bible","tag-compassion","tag-history","tag-infanticide","tag-rome","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}