Was Christianity started to control the masses and dictate poltical agendas

[Aegon]

Early christianity wasn't anti-roman in any way, so far as we can tell.  A significant portion of them appear to have cast the god of the OT as vader.  It didn;t even take off with the jews, it took off with the gentiles. It became anti-roman at some point but was quickly rehabilitated to facilitate romanization..thus all the effort and trouble to say that it was the jews what killed jesus. The book most refer to as so explicitly anti-roman would be rev..but recall it was romans that included it in canon..they were unlikely to have seen themselves as the beast.

Wishy washy little cult, aint it?

What is considered "early Christianity"? It seems to me from the little I know the Romans scapegoated Christians like Hitler scapegoated the Jews (perhaps not to the same extreme though...) Didn't they blame the Great Fire on them, sometime around 60 AD? Christian martyrs were a big deal early in the faith's history... it was part of why it was spread. And it was mainly the Roman Empire that oppressed them. It'd make more sense for the anti-Rome sentiment to disappear later on in Christianity's history, rather than early on. And I suppose saying that those who lived in Judea were Jews is oversimplification, since there was no such thing as a cohesive Judaism at that time. I know is that there were Jews who were quite wealthy and contributed to the oppression of the population, meaning that the rich Jews sitting pretty with the Romans were just as bad. Hence that time Jesus went beserk and fucked up that temple*. But there are several instances of Jesus, on behalf of the majority of the population, speaking out against both Roman rule and those who supported them.

*Excuse me, I meant cleansed the temple.

Tell me if I got any of that wrong.