The Christians as the Romans saw them.

From: National Review | Date: December 28, 1984| Author: Russell, Francis | Copyright information

HOW DID Christianity first seem to the established society of the Roman Empire? Pliny, the urbane governor of Bithynia, considered it "a depraved superstition carried to extravagent lengths." The same disparaging term was used by Tacitus and Suetonius. Christianity first appeared in the Roman Empire as a religion of the dispossessed, scornful of the established pagan worship. In Pliny's day (63-113 A.D.) there were fewer than fifty thousand Christians in an empire of sixty millio...

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