Roman conservatism - Christianity - Persecution

[jpvdgiessen]

In many ways Christianity fit in very well with this established form of worship. However, it was the denial by Christians to participate in public sacrifice and to acknowledge the semi-divine nature of the emperor which offended Roman ideas of civic solidarity and decency.

And that's one of the reasons Christians where persecuted. They didn't participate in other religions and therefore they where a "weird" group in the Roman society, ie. became the underdogs of society. The same reason as today's persecution of Christians (~200.000 p/year!!)

About the question when they started to believe in "Judgment day/End of Time", read in the Bible Luke 21, so from the beginning.