Was Christianity started to control the masses and dictate poltical agendas

[Anomalocaris]

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?

Early Christianity probably was anti-Roman in a passive aggressive way, pushing the envelop where it found tolerance and beating cowardly retreat where it found firmness, all the while being totally two faced as they Christian church had never failed to be in its entire history, saying honorable sounding things while doing anything that seemed likely to help subjugate more minds, open more wallets, and extending its own influence.

The monotheism of Christianity certainly did not dovetail with the roman equivalent of patriotic indoctrination practiced at the time.   There is no doubt that anyone who is world-wise and not indoctrinated at an early age to the Christian world view could not but find Christian eschatology disgusting and the interest of that Jesus cult antithetical to the greater good of any enlightened society.   So I don’t find it unbelievable that hostility between Roman administration and the Christianity began early on.