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Why did Romans ban religions?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The Romans never banned the religions of the other peoples of the empire. They tolerated and respected the religions of the conquered peoples. When Christianity spread around the empire, there was a number of persecutions. However, Christianity was never banned.

The only instance of banning religions was when mainstream Christianity (the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church) was made the sole legitimate religion of the empire (and therefore the state religion) in the Edict of Thessalonica of 380.The purpose of the edict was to ban dissident Christian doctrines, which were branded as heretic. The dissident sects, particularly Arian Christianity which was popular around the empire, were then persecuted.

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