What ended Roman persecution of the Christians?

Answer 1

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.

Persecution of the Christians ended early in the fourth century, because Christianity received state patronage under Emperor Constantine.

Answer 2

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Answer 3

Really, not much. The severity of the Christian persecutions has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, there were executions, but not nearly as many as some church writers would like you to believe. When Christianity was outlawed, it just went underground and continued to thrive.

Answer 4

Christianity existed and, for the most part, prospered in the pagan Roman Empire for approximately three centuries, before Emperor Constantine became the first openly Christian emperor (Emperor Philip was thought to have been a Christian and that is something still debated today). During that time, there were three short periods of widespread, official persecution of Christians, for what is now believed to have been a total of twelve years. The most important period of persecution, from 303 to 311 CE, is called the Great Persecution. These periods of persecution were of too short duration, too little supported by the bulk of the population and too reluctantly enforced to have a serious effect on the faith of Christians. Christian sometimes also faced persecution from the people around them, for example when natural disasters were blamed on Christians because they angered the gods by not worshipping them. In spite of these problems, the pagan empire was a period of slow but steady growth and consolidation, so that by the fourth century, it is estimated that around ten per cent of the population of the Roman Empire was Christian.

Answer 5

For some it strengthened their faith while for others it broke it.