How were the cristians persecuted?

Answer 1

They made them go in to the colesseum and made lions and other animals cahse them and eat them.... but then the christians after a while started to just stand in the colesseum and wait for the animal to kill them because the whole point of this was for entertainement and if the christians just stood there instead of running around the public wont think it was entertainning so they would stop killing them....

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DID IT MAKE THEM:A-STRONGER,B-WEAKER,C-MORE ORGANIZED,D-MORE COMMITTTED.

Answer 2

In an exchange of letters between Pliny the Younger and the Emperor Trajan in about 112, Trajan said that Christians were not to be sought out for punishment, and if they came up in court they were to be given the opportunity of clearing themselves by formal denial, no matter how compromising their previous conduct may have been - so long as they also offerred up the required prayers to the Roman Gods.

Trajan directed the magistrates to punish such persons as are legally convicted, but prohibited them from making any inquiries concerning the supposed criminals. The magistrates were not allowed to proceed on anonymous charges against Christians, but only the positive evidence of a fair and open accuser. The advantage for Christians was that even if the accusers succeeded in their prosecution, they were exposed to the resentment of a considerable and active party, to the censure of the more liberal portion of mankind, and to the ignominy which, in every age and country, has attended the character of an informer.

If the accusers failed in their proofs, they incurred the severe penalties applying to false accusation. Trajan's successor, Hadrian, prescribed the capital penalty for those who falsely attributed to their fellows the crime of Christianity. Everything possible, within the constraints of ancient laws, was done to protect Christians innocent of other crimes.

Answer 3

There is no real evidence of the Romans persecuting Christians before at least 97 CE, and only sporadic periods of persecution even after that. Professor Keith Hopkins (A world full of gods: the Strange Triumph of Christianity) says that although in its early years Christianity was both illegal and at loggerheads with the state, it was largely ignored until the three purges of 250, 257 and 303- 311.

A Christian tradition holds that Nero persecuted the Christians living in Rome because he blamed them for the Great Fire, but historians have been unable to find any evidence of such persecution or even a reason for Nero to want to blame them unjustly. Earl Doherty says that the alleged persecution of Christians following the great fire in Nero's Rome was never mentioned by Christian commentators for the next several centuries.

Sporadic local persecutions occurred on charges of Atheism, because the Christians refused to worship the Romans gods but, by and large, the emperors discouraged any action against the Christians.

When the Roman rulers decided to take action, particulary in the Great Persecution of 303 CE, they charged the Christians with atheism, but the real concern was that the Christian Church seemed to have become a powerful state within a state. It passed and enforced its own laws against Christians, kept its own treasury and Christians appeared to owe allegiance to the bishops ahead of their Roman governors.

There were troubling examples of treasonous behaviour by some of the Christians, that served to alienate the emperors and to justify some form of persecution before the Christians got out of hand. On the day of a public festival, Marcellus the centurion threw away his arms, and the ensigns of his office, and exclaimed with a loud voice that he would obey none but Jesus Christ the eternal King, and that he renounced forever the use of carnal weapons and the service of an idolatrous master. The soldiers, as soon as they recovered from their astonishment, secured the person of Marcellus. By his own confession, he was condemned and beheaded for the crime of desertion. Examples of such a nature are more akin to martial or even civil law than religious persecution.

Answer 4

As stated many times previously, the Romans were tolerant of other religions as long as they were not decadent or treasonous. The early Christians were considered a treasonous cult because they refused to even pay lip service to the state gods. This was considered treason by the Romans, as they felt that they needed to be in good standing with the gods so that the gods would keep favoring Rome. The early Christians brought much distrust upon themselves, as they were clannish and held secret services and meetings.

Answer 5

yes they cross them and gave them to hungry lions

Answer 6

they were thrown in prison and/or killed for believing in God and His Word

Answer 7

one punishment the Romans did to the Christians was to kill them because they wouldn't worship the roman gods.