Should People Take Justice Into Their Own Hands (partocular case)

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pizzahut451 said:

So you are saying the Christians used violence on Romans? Yeah, that makes sense considering the size and power of Roman Empire back than... And you should know that by conquering the Empreror, Christianity conquerered Rome.  And sorry to dissapoint you, but religion ws a HUGE deal to people back than, probably one of the most important factors of daily life back than. The Jupiter was Roman most prasied God, and they all rejected him and accepted the true God. And do you mind ansvering this question, why did an Empreror turned Christian when  his Empire haunted christians down for decades? It must have been because of the evil christian bastrds brainwashig him, right? It couldnt possibly be that he actually enlightend by our religion. 

 

Your second paragraph is straight up pointless, i wasnt arguing waht other christians did, just that the Christianity conquerd Rome without using violence.

I'd go with the brainwashing part, as cults are known to do that. Too bad there were no deprogramming experts back then.

Anyways, Christians were persectued back then because they often refused to fight in the military, and they did not awknoledge that the Emepror was a god (something which gave the Emperor legitimacy in the eyes of the people). Of course people back the were superstitious, and when Constantine thoght that he recieved help from "God" when he won a battle, he decided to give special favor to Christianity (the whole legitimacy issue would be solved in the future, by sayin things like "the King/Emperor was sent by God to rule over the Empire/Kingdom" nonsense). People only converted to get in the Emperor's good graces, not because they found the religion "enlightning". And eventually, when Christianity was declared the official religion, pagans were persected, killed, their places of whorship were destroyed etc.