The Romans regularly crucified people to send a violent message to everyone else, and were doing just that during the uprisings in Judaea after the first Jewish-Roman war in the first century CE. But over the next couple of centuries, cults centered around those martyred revolutionaries were growing in numbers and spreading dangerous anti-imperial ideas. I have this burning hunch that the Romans fought back against the cults by co-opting them and creating their own version of Christianity that mirrored some of what the early Christian cults were preaching. By making Christianity the official religion of Rome, they were able to wield the power to decide which teachings/stories were allowed in, and how they ought to be interpreted. All that to say, the explanation from within the (Roman) Christian church for why Jess was crucified really doesn’t make any sense. But to consider that a revolutionary like Jeus would have been killed in that exact way during that time to send a very gruesome message to anyone else who dare rebel against the Empire, well that explanation makes a lot more sense to me.
I saw this comment on a video where the poster was pretty much not a fan of Chritianty and thought the concept was cruel making people think they’re bad from birth.
Does this comment hold any truth?
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