https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/693817/Jesus-Christ-HOAX-Biblical-christianity-roman-empire

Vee's livestream was brilliant.

Well worth a watch.

if jesus was a story made by the romans why did romans persecute christians?

my first as well

"hey here's a new religion for you to believe that should ultimately pacify you." "but if you believe it we'll kill you."

Perhaps it was meant as a warning, that Roman citizens shouldn't worship Christ?

As Christ was made an example of, and the Romans justified the execution with the fact that Christ's teachings would have made the Empire and its people weak.

or it doesn't really make much sense

Either Christ did exist and the Romans executed him to prove a point, or they imagined him and told that story as a form of teaching and guidance to Roman citizens.
Either way, it was intended to discourage Christian worship.

well they actually executed him as a jewish heretic

enforcing jewish laws

also, everyone quotes the "turn the other cheek" but then ignore Luke 22
```He said, “This is different. Get ready for trouble. Look to what you’ll need; there are difficult times ahead. Pawn your coat and get a sword.```

@Machinimal @Arrias presumably because the other Emperors forgot all about it

ahh, yes the grand conspiracy to start a new religion apparently only known of by the emperor

in the article (if you read it), the scholar says that Jesus was allegedly created so people wouldn't follow a far more zealous sect of Judaism

because tasks like that are often performed by a singular individual

```Mr Atwill added: "They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system.```

I read that

.......which would explain why the Jews killed Jesus

but it doesn't address the issue of why they then persecuted the religion they're trying to spread

you can doubt all you want

the site was shit as well

so many fucking adds

Well then if Jews killed Jesus, fuck the Jews.

But why it would be Romans executing him then is beyond me.

I see what you mean.

Dunno, Rome persecuting Christianity seems really....contradictory from what I know of other religions citizens followed

christianity was adopted by rome 300 or so years after jesus's death

a fire in rome was supposedly blamed on christians

christians refused roman religious traditions such as sacrifice

To my knowledge, Christians blamed Nero for "fiddling" while Rome burned (he was a few miles away from Rome when the fire even happened IIRC), so the feeling was mutual if anything

Fucking Christians burning shit; should've left architectural and cultural destruction to the Muslims.

Doing a bit of research into it, the persecution of Christians is a tad overblown

https://theconversation.com/mythbusting-ancient-rome-throwing-christians-to-the-lions-67365

oh no question that it gets exaggerated. much of history does

Quite a bit, in fact

Throwing Christians to the Lions either:
A) Didn't happen
B) Wasn't unique to Christians

I'm gonna go with the latter just to be sure, though I vaguely remember somebody making a case for the former in a book I read

the only Imperial persecution of Christians seemed to have occurred over the span of approximately....63 years, from 250 AD (when Decius administered an Edict because he was a superstitious fuck who wanted to beat the Goths) to about 313 AD (the Edict of Milan, which overruled Decius' edict and mandated that citizens treat Christians nicely)

though the case could be made that that period of solely persecuting Christians was far shorter, from 303 to 306, during the reign of Diocletian