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Originally Posted by Jibninjas
I am sorry, but you need to study history or just don't make comments at all I expect better from you. This is the type of comment I would expect Rize or other people that do not care about the truth to make.
Ok, I stand to be corrected here by people who have studied this in more detail. But my general understanding is that while Christians certainly would not always have had it easy during that time period, they were not especially persecuted, at least no more or less than any other non-roman faith would be.
There were some time periods where Christianity was persecuted quite brutally (made illegal, etc.) but that was a relatively short time. There were some well publicized martyrs, but those were people who didn't play ball with the empire (The Empire genarally allowed people to keep their faiths, but you had to give appropriate nods to the empire to avoid losing your head.)
I also understand that the persecutions of Christians before it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, paled in comparison to the persecution by Christians after the fact.
Now, I'm not saying these in a cocky manner and I certainly stand to be corrected (my info comes from listenifng to - admitedly biased - podcasts. Do you have any non-biased sources that show different?
The question is not whether Christians were persecuted (from time to time they were) the question was to what extent, and was it disproportional to the persecution of other groups? These were not easy times for many people!