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Romans: "Thanks for telling us about this god, he's our's now" (infosec.pub)
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[–] karashta@piefed.social 3 points 6 months ago

Romans were concerned with correct practice towards the gods. Christians were concerned with having the correct internal belief structure.

Instead of performing the correct actions, you had to think the right way for them.

Christians were so contentious, there were huge splits on the empire over basically a single letter in a Greek word. Those who thought Jesus and God shared the same essence... And those who thought it was just similar but not the same essence.

I prefer the syncretism of Rome over that.