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roman beleived in Gods!!Not God!!

Well, it actually had little to do with gods vs. God as in today's popular sense. In brief, as an institution, the Church ironically came to be established because of the Empire (beginning formally with the Emperor Constantine). Despite the Church's official lore, this happening was far more about dealing with satisfying political power needs. (Having a unified church/state became essential to maintaining the Empire; hence, the creation of the universal Roman religion, i.e., the Roman Catholic Church.)... Just as an aside here in this regard, the Roman persecution of early Christians also had little to do with their religious beliefs per se (the Romans were little concerned about what gods and/or God one believed in). Essentially, what most were charged with/condemned for would translate as "advocating the overthrow of the government" if not "terrorism" today...

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What changes did archbishop William laud make to the church?

Archbishop added a few catholic touches to the Protestant Church. This included decorating the church- Protestants only liked plain churches . The Protestants reacted badly to this change though


Why was Jesus a threat to the Roman Empire since they had killed him?

A:Historians tell us that the Roman emperors preferred to ignore the Christians and had no interest in Jesus. It was only when the Christians began to appear disloyal to the empire that widespread official persecutions began. Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) says that Christian traditions about centuries of pagan persecution arose in the fourth and fifth centuries, when the Christian Church sought to justify its own persecution of the pagan temples.


Who was the Roman polictician that hated Carthage?

It was Cato the Elder.


How do you think the founders of the Romans republic would have viewed the governmentof the roman empire?

They would have hated it. The Roman Senate would have been disgusted at the lack of power of the Senate in the Imperial years. They would have also hated that provincials were being made citizens, and that the size of the senate had been dramatically increased. They would have hated the decline of Rome's "Great Families" and the rise of the "Novus Homo" ("New Man", a person who made their wealth in the provinces, not a native Italian, not of noble Patrician background). They would have hated the amount of power the Emperor wielded, and especially in the later years of the Empire would have hated the instability and the lack of discipline in the army. They would also have hated the posthumous deification of emperors, and the rise of the Eastern style "God King"


Why did the Roman Emperor persecute Christian?

Christians refused to worship Roman gods.

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What position did purporting the sun center theory put Galileo in with the Roman Catholic Church?

the roman catholic church basically hated anyone who disgagreed with them.. galileo disagreed with their idea that the earth was the center of the universe, so extremely long story extremely short...they hated him and punished him severely...they pretty much made his life hell


A person called who criticized the Roman Catholic Church is called a what?

Roman Catholic AnswerThat depends on who they are. They could be heretics, schismatics, pagans, or protestants. The only thing we know for sure is that Jesus promised this, "and you will be hated by all for my name's sake; but he who has persevered to the end will be saved." Matt 11:22


Why did Mary Tudor hate Elizabeth at the start of the reign?

Mary hated her half sister Elizabeth at the start and during her reign because her Mother was Anne Boleyn, who is the woman who divorced her mother to separated from the Roman Church. Mary was also Roman Catholic while Elizabeth was Protestant, so Mary has always hated Elizabeth since Henry VIII separated from Rome.


What were some reaons that many people hated the Catholic church?

Some reasons why many people hated the catholic church was because some were under the influence that the religion had too much power over Europe. They controlled the majority of politics around Europe, around the time nationalism was starting to appear. People wanted their own country to have power over themselves, and for them not to be influenced by religion in Italy.


What is the difference between the Orthodox Church and the Holy Roman?

The Holy Roman Empire was actually in Germany and was named so by a pope after Charlemagne or Charles the Great conquered most of Europe and became Christan.The Roman Empire, from around 750 BC, began as a kingdom, then a republic, and finally an empire by around 30 BC, encompassing the entire region around the Mediterranean Sea, including as far west as Portugal and north to the British Isles, west surrounding the Black Sea to Armenia and Mesopotamia, to the south encompassed the northern coast of Africa and all of Egypt. Once Roman military conquest had been accomplished, Roman occupation establish the Latin language, legal system, and culture to these lands and was the origin of what is today referred to as "Western Culture".The Holy Roman Empire included Germany and the part of Italy ruled by Germany between 800 AD to around 1800. Charlemagne, King of the Franks (which was the territory formerly known as Gaul, approximately France and Germany of today) traveled to Rome, where Pope Leo III on Christmas day in 800, unexpectedly crowned him Emperor of the Romans. This put Charlemagne in direct competition with the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. Charlemagne's empire included the Germanic empire and that part of Italy controlled by the Germans. From this point on, there is a constant power struggle between the Pope in Rome and the German empire which eventually leads to the decline in the power of the Catholic Church and the rise of Protestantism.


What changes did archbishop William laud make to the church?

Archbishop added a few catholic touches to the Protestant Church. This included decorating the church- Protestants only liked plain churches . The Protestants reacted badly to this change though


Why was Jesus a threat to the Roman Empire since they had killed him?

A:Historians tell us that the Roman emperors preferred to ignore the Christians and had no interest in Jesus. It was only when the Christians began to appear disloyal to the empire that widespread official persecutions began. Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) says that Christian traditions about centuries of pagan persecution arose in the fourth and fifth centuries, when the Christian Church sought to justify its own persecution of the pagan temples.


What percent of Americans hate Catholics?

The Great Bishop Fulton J. Sheen once said:"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be." I would venture to say that there are very few people who actually hate Catholics, even of the few who truly hate the Catholic Church, even fewer of them hate their brother-in-law who is Catholic, or their next door neighbor who is Catholic, etc. . But the number of people who have been told lies and falsehoods about Catholicism is innumerable, and those people hate what they think the Catholic Church is, even if they have never hated a Catholic person.


What did Attila the Hun accomplish?

He acomplished a vast empire from Mongolia to the edge of the roman empire this is why the chines hated the stupid mongorians.He burned Rome to the ground, he killed millions of people, he spread terror through out both the Easter and Wester Roman Empires, and he conquered thousands of miles of land.


How did people react to Galileo theory?

they thought he was stupid until he proved it with his invention of the telescope


Why are they called protestants?

Because the Protestants were "protesting" the practices of the Roman Catholic Church in the beginning. Reformation and protestation are not the same thing. Reformation seeks to change the institution in some manner. Martin Luther was both a protestant and a reformist. Protestation calls out the wrongful practices of the dominant religious hierarchy. There is also argument that says "protestantism" are those who openly profess their faith when it could get them in trouble with local powers (be they state or the installed religion).


Who was the Roman polictician that hated Carthage?

It was Cato the Elder.