RE: Didn't Nero launch Christianity?
April 12, 2019 at 9:09 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2019 at 9:10 am by Acrobat.)
I also think it’s not sympathy for the suffering of Christians that appealed to the pagans, but it’s defiance. It’s willingness to defy political and social order, even it meant death.
Marty stories almost always highlight the courage and defiance of the martyrs death, dying not as some distraught victim, but as emblems of courage, as heroic in the face of it.
For the poor and disenfranchised, those who felt powerless among the powers that be, it shouldn’t be surprising why such a religion would appeal to them.
Marty stories almost always highlight the courage and defiance of the martyrs death, dying not as some distraught victim, but as emblems of courage, as heroic in the face of it.
For the poor and disenfranchised, those who felt powerless among the powers that be, it shouldn’t be surprising why such a religion would appeal to them.
