What percentage of Christians denied they were Christians to escape being killed/being eaten by lions in Rome's Colloseum/other Roman sports stadiums/Superbowl venues?
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2007-11-28 03:34:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Seeing how the twelve fled when Christ was arrested I would imagine most.
2007-11-28 03:40:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have been fortunate to visit the Colosseum and take its tours. Todalay is correct not one Christian died in the Colosseum. A Pope in the 900's through the 1100's, I can't remember exactly when put a large cross at the Colosseum and declared it a holy shrine. This was done because Roman were stealing the marble to built houses. You can see the stolen marble when you see certain neighbor hoods in the city. Mostly captured prisoners of battles were put to death. The Romans build a stadium long before football and had to have a way to fill it on Sunday!
2007-11-28 12:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the exact percentage...lol...but apparently, those were the days when most Christians actually had the courage of their convictions, and actually had to face real persecution as a religious minority. They've been the majority persecutors for so long that at this point they consider themselves "martyrs" merely for being exposed to alternative viewpoints.
Am I the only one who finds it intensely ironic that Christian shill primoa says "fear is a very persuasive tool"?
P.S. - Sorry, but as an atheist, even I have to disagree with the people who are trying to claim that Roman persecution of Christians never occurred. It was a regular sport to send the Christians to the lions for popular amusement. And the Christians were indeed willing to go as "witnesses" of "Christ." Not that that makes them heroes, any more than the 9/11 hijackers are heroes.
2007-11-28 11:41:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Great question. The percentage was probably quite high because martyrdom isn't everybody's cup of tea. Personally, I would switch religions in a heartbeat if I had one (a Religion not a heartbeat).
2007-11-28 12:41:56 · answer #4 · answered by FRANsuFU 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In order to escape the persecution in Rome, you had to not only deny your faith, you had to proclaim Nero as god. If this did happen, the individual was never a believer in the first place. So the answer is zero.
2007-11-28 11:46:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Judging by the numbers killed, and the effect it had on converting even the crowd, I would estimate this percentage to be very low.
2007-11-28 11:39:11 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
fairly small, since Roman persecution of Christians was only an on-again, off-again phenomenon.... less than five years spread out over a couple of centuries.
2007-11-28 11:43:38 · answer #7 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not looking at the link because of slow internet, but the world can't know because when they pretended to be pagan, they were recorded as being pagan. So we have records of alot of pagans and we can't know how many and which ones were actually christians.
2007-11-28 11:42:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
None. There was no institutionalized Christian persecution by Rome. That's a fiction invented later on by the church.
2007-11-28 11:40:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't think anyone really has an accurate number for something like that.
I would hope that none of them renounced the faith.......
But fear is a very persuasive tool.
2007-11-28 11:38:59 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋