The Roman Empire created Christianity for their own purpose.
The Caesars invented Jesus as their logotype. He is their baby. Any schism's are plagerists trying to cash in on the marketing concept.
Modern coorporations imitate Roman Catholic marketing techniques. First they design a logo. Then they spread it around the world with thier gospel message about their products along with their logo.
If you buy Cilica you buy Toyota. If you buy Jesus you buy Rome. Period.
2007-01-22 04:23:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
The story here is "if you can't beat 'em, co-opt 'em", a strategy that has been repeated by imperial powers throughout history. Rome found Jesus a troublemaker so they killed him. P Pilate like the CIA and Caiaphas like G Bush each passed the buck of responsibility to the other. Then Rome found his followers to be a threat so they killed them. At least burning them with pitch was pretty. But the sect survived and thrived so eventually Rome got a leader who co-opted them and gave them official approval (Constantinos), so the sect flourished -- but at the cost of having its teachings decided by Imperial Rome. For 250 years after Emperor Constantinos, Roman politics in general and emperors like Justinian in particular, not wisdom or truth, decided such church matters as what was to be put in the Bible and what was to be suppressed as a heresy. We have been suffering the consequences ever since.
2007-01-23 18:41:02 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the first post: before you start jumping to conclusions, do a bit of research first. If you study any sort of Roman history or early Church history, you will see how silly your assertions sound.
Indeed, if Jesus was "their baby," how do you account for Nero, who was known to dip Christians in pitch and burn them as living torches for his banquets? Or how about the countless martyrs that were thrown to the beasts in the Colosseum, or the reasons for which the early Christians had to hide out in the catacombs?
Rome did not invent Christianity, rather Christianity converted Rome.
2007-01-22 04:40:29 · answer #2 · answered by greyrider1000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show me one shred of verifiable evidence that the ancient Roman empire invented our faith and our Christ. They persecuted the followers of the Christ.
2007-01-22 04:30:33 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you buy a Cilica, you are buying a knock-off toyota
2007-01-22 13:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by lb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋