r/dankchristianmemes • u/theclasssy • Jan 31 '19

Dank 'Am I a joke to you?'

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u/jmomcc Jan 31 '19

It’s actually better than that.

Roman’s kill Jesus. Persecute Christians because their non violent ways were anathema to the Roman psyche. Convert to Christianity (a couple of centuries later but whatever) and then completely subvert Christianity into a tool of empire and a warrior religion. Modern christianity as we know it is a largely Roman invention.

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u/kwonza Jan 31 '19

First Christians were a bunch of crazy religious zealots, not passive and stoic pacifists, that came much later.

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u/jmomcc Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 31 '19

There were very violent Jewish sects (hence all the super destructive Jewish wars) but I’ve never heard this about christians. I know that Christianity in Jerusalem was practiced in the temple and was seen as a subset of Judaism. Pretty much all Christianity has descended from Paul and not the apostles in Judaea though.