RE: Didn't Nero launch Christianity?
April 14, 2019 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2019 at 10:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 14, 2019 at 1:26 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: I may or may not know my history. But is it not true that they were a religious minority at one point? It's a matter of documentation... How we interpret that documentation today is a matter of interpretation.
Not in the context of roman society, no. We think of things like religious minorities (and all that this entails) through the lens of later monotheistic cultural dominance and persecution. Pagan rome absorbed and validated the religions it came into contact with to maintain social order and as an effective platform for taxation. The roman empires faith was a massive collection of "religious minorities", all of which operated under the umbrella of secular authority. Priesthood was a public office. A roman temple would contain effigies to faiths from all over their reach. They even contained statues of "jesus", lol.
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