Do you think people 2000 years ago were all stupid?
No stupider than people now. Christianity remains very popular.
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Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 4 months agoThen why is it that the message was so powerful that the Roman empire abolished its idol worship and chose Christianity? Especially as Jesus a.s. was supposed to be a rebel against the empire?
Do you think people 2000 years ago were all stupid?
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do you think people 2000 years ago were all stupid?
If they did as you described, then yes.
Mjpasta710@midwest.social 4 months ago
Happened overnight too. /S
This isn’t an accurate account of history.
If you’ve studied any of the Roman empire in antiquity you’re actively acting in bad faith.
If not, why are you making things up? Why are you actively lying?
Constantine is reported as making it the state religion 300+ years after the alleged existence of yeshua.
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Why do you accuse me of something i never said?
A message being powerful is not in contradiction to it taking time to establish. If you look at the timeline you will see that it grew exponentially. and that the critical point was in the fourth century, after which it became the dominant religion in many parts of the empire.
That is how exponential growth works.
Mjpasta710@midwest.social 4 months ago
Bad faith debating.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The message of Christianity is excellent for subjugating populations, giving them purpose & hope, keeping people busy & out of trouble. I think that all sounds very appealing to rulers.
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 4 months ago
And the roman empire was not able to do that already? From my understanding mythologically/spiritually the Roman empire was perfectly settled with what it had before in terms of political power. Incidentally the roman empire declined and fell apart in the centuries after accepting Christianity.
And before the Roman empire there were the Egyptians. They seemed to fare much better in terms of power with their idol worship than later when they embraced Abrahamic religions, yet they did.