Date: December 29th, 2025 5:10 PM Author: BIRTH RATE TO ZERO
jew collaborating with the roman state to help make sense and lessen the social impact and confusion amongst roman elites regarding what was effectively a radical heresiarch's sectarian split against temple orthodoxy
Date: December 29th, 2025 5:12 PM Author: BIRTH RATE TO ZERO
Idk
The codification of the religion into proto-Roman Christianity in the succeeding state sanctioned councils probably means that we don't know much of what the original religion set up by the disciples actually looked like or acted as
Date: December 29th, 2025 5:16 PM Author: BIRTH RATE TO ZERO
the people under intense state persecution kept detailed records of their rites, organizational structures, recruiting methods, informal hierarchies, and practices? paul is as useful as a historical source as he is because he wrote frequently and without much censor
i've read catholic sources on the era and even those will occasionally claim "we don't know for certain, so we're working with projections sourced from contemporaries"