Why did people fear the Roman gods?

Answer 1

People believed in the Roman gods because it was the most convenient method of explaining natural processes in the world, and it helped explain misfortune and other things that could happen to people. Today, many pagans still worship the Ancient Roman gods, and revere them as actual anthropomorphic deities.

Answer 2

The same reason we have. People want someone to look up to and they want to think that there is more to life then what they can see. Agreed 100%. Even the Phoenicians who had no belief in an afterlife had gods. If the question asks why the Romans had multiple gods instead of one, it is important to remember that only the Jews were monothiestic, and it was a radical idea for those times. [The pharaoh Ankhanaten worshipped only the sun god Ra, and he had many followers, but he was unsuccessful in converting Egypt to monothiesm.] Everywhere the ancients looked, the world seemed to be run by gods in conflict with each other, and that is how they explained it. The myth about the abduction of Proserpina is a prime example, and it is how the Romans explained the changing of the seasons.

Answer 3

The unknown brings fear. Before rational science, people invented unknown forces to explain things they had no explanation for. So the gods which were invented to explain unknowable catastrophic events where feared and bribed with sacrificial offerings, and attempts to enlist them onto your side. Unfortunately, now that we have rational explanations for natural catastrophes today, many people still ascribe them to a god/gods.

Answer 4

The Greeks were around far longer than the Romans and were the cause of the Persian Empire collapsing, not to mention it was Alexander the great who went as far as India in his conquests. They weren't some tribe of Celts that would cut off your head and embalm if you were important, these were scholars and warriors and a force that posed a serious threat in a Roman mindset.

Answer 5

Actually, people today are Christian, but they have no idea how they became Christian. They speak as though everyone in their family is a Christian and were always Christian (or Muslim or Jew) but in reality.... Their families have only followed these religions for a maximum of 1400, or 2000, or 5000 years. Before Islam of 1400 years ago, Christianity of 2000 years ago and Judaism of 5000 years ago, they all worshipped the Gods. These gods represented the One God. Some people followed these new religions, and people often thought they were weirdos. But then, if one big guy, a leader converted.... They often converted the entire country by force because the religions policy was that you must convert others, of course a king would convert all his people. The people hated this, but couldn't change it... So what they did was incorporate their old traditions from their religion into these new ones. Many aspects of these 3 new religions were adopted. If not these religions would not have culture. Ex. Wine incense candles and holy water. All of which were used in pagan temples but now used in churches. Also statues. The pagans used statues to focus on god. Today they just replace the statue of their original god with the statue of Jesus or Mary. Muslims have the kana which was used for worshipping the Hindu god Shiva and his symbol, the shiva lingam there is still given reference.

Answer 6

Myths are the stories of gods (and heroes).

Answer 7

People fear the roman gods because they are more warlike if you do somting they dislike they will punish you .

Answer 8

The Romans were very fierce warriors.the only thing they believed in was their gods so since they tried to conquer other lands they wanted other people to believe in their beliefs

Answer 9

they afraid that greek’s tradition replaced their tradition’s