People liked Christian views and beliefs, and were drawn to the idea of “Love Thy Neighbor”. They needed a sense of reward for their long and hard life; and wanted something to look forward to after death (heaven). They a

How did a small and hated sect of “human sacrificing cannibals” become a religion worshiped by Empires? The more the Christians were tortured and slaughtered, the more they were in the limelight; more and more people learned about them, becoming interested with the message Christianity had to offer. Their religion was benefited even more with Nero’s attempts to exterminate them. Whenever people had the opportunity to renounce their Christianity or be tortured then executed, if they didn’t convert, it proved there must be something in that crazy religion that people are willing to die for. There are two examples of recorded events during Nero’s reign that drastically persuaded people to become Christian: Paul and Peter; two of Jesus’ “Twelve Apostles”. Nero had Peter crucified, had Paul beheaded. The people believed that they would not have died for a lie.

There are religious and non-religious reasons for the persecutions of early Christians in the ancient Roman Empire. Christianity endured hardships by emperors such as Nero, yet grew into an enormously followed religion. Who

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