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[Diomedes1976]

Christianity was just a sect ,a sect that grew big enough to impose themselves .How ,well they instilled fear ,used good PR (feeding the poor etc ) ,created the usual bonds between sectarian people ,fueled the hate toward the more wealthy citizens and their traditional gods ,etc .Plus fanatism that can be a very strong weapong when correctly used as we sadly see today .

Once the emperor Constantin ,called The Great by the Christians as he gave them a lot of power (but was otherwise a terrible emperor whose military changes ,for instance ,put the empire on the way down by destroying their efficiency and disbanding the Legions in fear they could overthrow him one day) learnt that a religion that taught obedicence and resignation ,hope of the next world and resignation with this one ,one religion that made holy the power on earth as an emanation of power on heaven ,a religion that was well controlled by a proffesional clerus and churchmen that had a big weight in the mentalities and activities of their correligionaries ....once he learnt that religion would serve his imperialist needs way more that the traditional roman religion wich had dozens of gods with a large past and different doctrines ,a religion without a dogma etc ...when he learnt that he pushed to impose the christianism and that was the end of many things and the start of other things that have caused a good deal of grief over the hystory .

We know very few about Jesus .The texts about his life werent written by anyone that actually knew him and were written many years (decades ) after his decease .The Christianims rose because Saint Paul fanatism and good work in the propagation and proselitism ,some social issues and specially the imperial interest to propagate that religion in the Roman population .Thinking otherwise is being a bit ingenuos .Back in 356 ,way later that Constantin ,the great majority of the imperial population was still pagan even after the enourmous push Constantin and his sons were giving the new religion .Even in a city as Antioquia were there was maybe the biggest concentration of christians of the Empire ,the census of that year showed only 1/3 abscribed to the local diocesis of the Church .But the violence and the economic strangulation the succesive emperors used to impose this religion finally managed to create a "de facto " situation that wasnt easily reversable specially since the power from then and always saw the christianims as the way to keep their subdits docile .Only Julian the Apostate made a change of politics regarding this ,and in the years he was in the power the balance started to change agains as he finished the economic and political benefits of the christians and tried to organize a pagan clerus to compete with it .But Julian lived too short time and the rest is hystory .