Both Romans and Egyptians supposedly killed a ton of baby boys to stop Jesus & Moses respectively. Why does only one of these events have a name (Massacre of the Innocents) : r/NoStupidQuestions Skip to main content

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Both Romans and Egyptians supposedly killed a ton of baby boys to stop Jesus & Moses respectively. Why does only one of these events have a name (Massacre of the Innocents)

I'm not a big religion guy so maybe I'm getting the details wrong but regardless, why doesn't moses get a cool name for when egyptians killed a lot of boys to stop him?

i'm sure moses was a nice guy irl but he came off as a huge prick in Prince of Egypt btw

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u/RickKassidy avatar

Neither of these events actually happened.

u/gorillachud avatar

this is actually not relevant to my question. although I did put "supposedly" in there.

u/RickKassidy avatar

You should probably ask the authors of the Bible why they didn’t name them both.

u/gorillachud avatar

I think they're dead dude.

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Both are called the Massacre of the Innocents but only the ones killed in Benthelem have an official day, the Feast of the Holy Innocents celebrated the 28th of December.

u/gorillachud avatar

I see. that's confusing. thank you.

Sorry for the orthography.

u/gorillachud avatar

Lol it's fine I understood you well before the edit. Just seems confusing that they're both called the same thing is all.

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