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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Except that the vast majority of what we would now call 'Romans' were slaves or ex slaves or just not Roman (which is why crucifixion was also used to kill the lower classes in general eventually) and while there were other forms of execution it was an extremely common execution, Jesus was crucified with 2 other bog standard ordinary criminals.
If a slave killed his master then every slave in the household, including women and children, were crucified, I'm not arguing it wasnt a painful horrific death, just that the idea there was something unique about Jesus's pain is ridiculous, there just wasnt.
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I haven’t seen the movie, mainly because I don’t like torture flicks and I don’t find the subject that interesting, but my understanding was that the crucifiction went above and beyond normal ones. The walk of shame and beatings before, the use of nails, vinegar in the wounds, crown of thorns etc. I don’t think those aspects were normal practice.