I've never got the feeling that the Romans were being exonerated in any way. It's always appeared to me that certain individuals were responsible for making their own choices - and that to attribute the event to any whole group was utter foolishness. There is a lot of utter foolishness out there. I can't do anything but speculate about Pilate since I don't know him persaonally. I do know, however, that objectively speaking we all act 'out of character' once in a while. Anyway, if we get much more religious oriented this thread will probably be deemed too off-topic for the forum and we'll get crucif- I mean the thread will get locked.

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