(October 8, 2017 at 4:29 pm)Die Atheistin Wrote: How did Christianity become the biggest religion in the first place?
It isn't the biggest, who told you that? Islam is. But when you take into account all 7 billion humans, Christians and Muslims and Jews don't add up together to be the majority. "Other" when you include Buddhists and Hindus and Sikhs and all other small religions they constitute the bulk of our world population.
The better way of asking the question would be.
"How did Christianity become popular".
Well, history explains this. You had Rome spending money left and right, bankrupting the country left and right, and then someone like Nero has a disaster under his rule, and looks for a scapegoat. Well, nobody likes a bully. The combo of bad economics and the old underdog story lead Constantine later to adapt the growing religion as his own.
I think Nero specifically targeting Christians for the fire that burned down Rome had alot to do with their rise in popularity.
Politics, is why, marketing is why. Those things together can make any good idea or bad idea become popular.
