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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (271)	8/8/2005 4:18:24 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

Not really. For three hundred years, the Romans tried to eliminate Christianity Rome had no particular hatred of this new religion. Christianity was just another foreign cult that Rome viewed as a potential challenge to its political authority. The scale of persecutions of Christians by Romans was wildly exaggerated. General persecutions were rare. For the most part Christians could maintain their beliefs provided that they demonstrated even token compliance with the compulsory rituals of the Empire. However some of the early Christian sects were essentially suicide cults whose members courted martyrdom.