Hollywood anti catholic bullshit needs to stop

[epicurean]

ArchangelMadzz said:

epicurean said:

I can understand that belief when the Romans adopted it (Christianity), but the actual originators largely died for their beliefs (disciples, Paul, people thrown to the lions, etc.) What are your ideas for their creation? Popularity, perhaps? Fame?

If they genuinely believed then they believed. To tell people to not eat certain foods, to not wear clothes of 2 different cloth, no seafood for fear of burning forever. I don't know how you would describe it but to me it seems like an obvious device to control the population and keep them in line.

So that would be the Jewish people (pre-Christianity). I'm reading a book about that currently as I never really understood it either. It seems (at least according to this book) that they thought "sin" was something you could catch, like we think of germs today, and so they avoided the things that they thought brought them in contact with it. I'm only part way through so I can't give a full explanation, though (sorry). 

I've read a lot of Christian apology books, and there are a lot of well-reasoned and factual basis for why Christianity is a thing. Of course, as a Christian I am likely very biased. But the fact that so many died at the birth of Christianity (right after Christ died) is a difficult thing to explain away. Clearly the disciples believed Christ came back to life or was the Son of God, otherwise their actions simply don't make sense. Unless they were all crazy? On some kind of drug? I dunno.