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Christianity came into the world approximately two thousand years ago. It was
persecuted at first, but atually became the offical religion in 381 A.D.
\"It is the spiritual
force that conquered the Roman Empire; one of the
decisive elements in the growth of
Western civiliztion (Bunson 9).
Throughout history Christianity has played a major role
in changing our
society into what it is today. \"Christianity won the professed allegiance
of the overwhelming majority of the population of the Roman Empire and even
the
support of the Roman State (Latourette 65). Not only did Christianity
thrive, but it also
succeeded in changing the face of Roman culture.
Consider the gladiatorial fights. \"The huge Coliseum at Rome seated 50
thousand people
and was the scene of many bloody gladiatorial combats and
even mock naval battles\"
(Schoder 108). \"Hundreds of thousands of slaves
shed their blood in the arena in Rome
year after year to satisfy the
perverted lust of the Roman mob\" (Kennedy 148).
\"Although many Romans
descried these blook-letting contests, there persisted a streak
of cruelty
in Roman public amusements which can scarcely be comprehended, far less
condoned, today (81). The message of Christianity helped changed this aspect
of
Roman life because it gave worth and significance every life (Kennedy
149). Jesus told
the multitudes to \"love your neighbor as yourself\" (Luke
10:27) He also told the story of
the good summaritan to illistrate that any
person he came in contact with was his good
neighbor (Luke 10:30-37).
Christianities message contains the golden rule \"do to others
as you you
have them do to you\" (Luke 6-3).
\"The child of today is loved and
adored. But it was not so in pre-Christian times. The
Roman father's power
of his child was absolute. \"He could expose it to death; he could
scourge
it, mutilate it, marry it, divorce it, see it as a slave, or kill it to satisfy
his own
blood lust.\" Quintillion, a roman writer, said that to kill a man
was often held to be a
crime, but to kill one's own children was sometimes
considered a beautiful action
(Kennedy 149). The message of Christianity
gave value to children. Jeasus said \"who
ever humbles himself like this
child is greatest in my kingdom. If anyone causes these
little ones who
believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone
around his neck and be drowned in the Sea (Matt 18:4-6).
\"Half of
the entire Roman Empire consisted of slaves. The city of Athens had four
hundred thousand inhabitants; one hundred thousand of those were free and
three
hundred thousand were slaves. Slavery in the ancient world was far
more brutal than
anything modern slavery has demonstrated. One Roman had six
hundred slaves put to
death for the killing of a man. Another roman master
put a slave to death simply for the
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