@@frankm.2850 I wouldn't be surprised if the average textbook is technically full of propaganda and is heavily censored because of how big some corrupt governments are.
It wasn't just 'legalised' and naturally rose to popularity, it was made the new state religion and enforced as such. The romans believed that religious homogeneity was extremely important to the prosperity of the empire (the idea that it didn't matter too much who the people were worshipping, as long as everyone worshipped the same), which is why they were normally so accepting of external pantheons and fond of the tactic of conflating foreign gods with their own, in effect having all their subjects worshipping the same pantheon under a variety of names. Constantine was Christian himself (Scholars are uncertain why exactly) and saw the steady growth of it among the lower classes. Because the tenets of Christianity are antithetical to an accepting stance with polytheistic religions, he though the only way to maintain religious homogeneity would be if everyone was Christian.
@@Digitize27 that is true but also Constantine was not necessarily Christian per say. He never converted until the end of his reign and it was never clear if he was a believer or merely a damn good politician but it was probably both
@@generalsmite7167 Constantine being baptised on his death bed doesn't mean that he converted on his death bed. That was quite normal at the time as people believed baptised washed away your sins. By getting baptised on your death bed, it was a more sure path to salvation
Well, if any impositional religion says only-we're-right, and everyone else is wrong, they're asking for trouble, (romans included - i.e. BOTH ). Perhaps not this MUCH, but that's how it goes. A major problem w christianity is it's SCOPE - i.e. all of humankind, the whole world, the whole universe even. Arrogant. How about humanity still-in desert sands/lands, pre-cars & heavy-labor machinery roads where bedouin / desert/s-peoples might-need-more-order for less conflict, & benefit from not having the "door slammed in their face" "when starving of thirst", reasonably. What are they doing talking-bleeep in jungles?
@@vurrath7716 what were you even getting at? you provided nothing but a rant with no evidence or really any point to go off of except the claim that religious people are arrogant. I swear atheists gotta get their daily "believing in a religion is delusional and anyone who does is arrogant and insane" just so they can feel better about their own beliefs while acting smarter than everyone around them because they don't believe in a higher power. "we definitely have everything correct, no one else could be right about anything, look at science!" like seriously no religious person has ever claimed they know everything for certain, it's just silly. What we do claim is that there is a God, the higher power who created everything as we know it. For you to call Christian's arrogant is one hypocritical ass statement considering you act like you have true knowledge of the Universe's existence and all religious perspectives, as well as how they would've operated, came to be and existed through out history. Like at least realise that not only your perspective has chance of being true, there is millions of things in modern science we think we know that will be disproven in the future. One point I'd also like to add based off of science, if energy and mass cannot be create or destroyed, and all mass will eventually radioactively decay into a single element, that means that at the beginning of the Universe, everything would've been at a single point, in stagnation. Since that's the case, the Universe (and the big bang) could not have occurred without and outside source of energy, and if all the energy to exist was in that stagnated point of mass and energy, then only an outside force with more energy than in the entire Universe could have produced an effect such as the big bang (aka only an omnipotent God could have the capabilities and power required to make the Big Bang occur.) Therefore, for the Universe to exist, for it to have begun existing at all, as anything more than just a single dot of mass, God has to have started it. Someone has to have kicked the ball into motion. (plus the ball would't even be there to be kicked into motion without first being created by God so..)
@@LionsInBoots if you think a man in the sky allows christians to murder and harass people for being gay black or another religion (that is written in your lovely book!) and enslave others, i'm not going to think anything other than you are arrogant and insane prove your god is read other than saying "umm i dont know the answer to the big bang so a man created everything and pulled a woman out of a mans chest ok"
This belies the fact that all peoples, not just christians, could suffer this fate. It wasn't specifically against christians, but anyone that broke roman law.
By your standards, but remeber Roman culture and by default laws and ethics. Roman society by the this time was focusing on keeping the empire together, which had often become staggered due to many changes in government. Christianity completly throw society into discord, and not simply because they were monotheistic (Jewish and Zoroastrian citizens existed happily in the empire), but because they rejected the very rule of the emperor and senate. Also, something this is skit doesn’t mention is that many of the records of the killings and persecutions come from Christian sources centuries later. And the Roman, Jewish and many other sources actually mention the early Christians being more violent. So what we may have perceived as simple persecution from reading years of Christianized history, may have actually been a reactionary measure to terroism within the empire.
@@dylantennant6594 Maybe? but that seems a little far fetched, keep in mind the persecutions started at the very start of Christianity's existence, not to mention if it was simply to keep Christians under control that certainly doesn't explain the horrific tortures they implemented for Christians, the romans weren't always the most tolerant people but these things are difficult to track because pretty much every source had an agenda . Keep in mind both Jewish, Roman, and Christian sources would be biased. And it does make sense that the Christians where the ones to write the sources, its very uncommon for the people dealing the persecutions to keep a record of what they where doing.
@@GuyMaleMan A big part of their prosecution was the fact that they refused to acknowledge the divinity of the emperor and kept publicly denouncing him.
@@dylantennant6594 Jews had to be almost exterminated at least once, before they acknowledged Roman dominion. I suspect that delivered the message about not going against the emperor quite well.
Yes, the Christians who staged a violent coup in 1637, which attempted to place a Jesuit European governorship over Japan by overthrowing the shogun and the emperor. I’m sure Japan had no reason to persecute Christians.
@@dylantennant6594 The Japanese also saw Christian missionary’s as an arm of European colonization ITSELF seeing its very existence as a threat to its culture.
Romans were really worried about the gods getting upset . They thought it was bad news to not respect all the gods.Their concepts of religion wanted folks to respect all the gods (just in case).They would have been happy to worship the god of Abraham as long he entered the Pantheon besides other gods. They thought Christians were "atheist" for rejecting other gods. They thought it odd that people would die so as not to respect other gods. Roman govs gave christians every chance to sacrafice.
"besides" finally, someone understanding the problem of any/all mono-s. Disagree about every-chance to sacrifice though, too-consistent a statement for something INconsistent. Supressing their open-preaching/worship happened quite a lot - Grand open roman temples, while christians had to do it in private in their own homes, abandoned buildings, etc. nothing VISIBLE, outside. Only over-time, was it eventually tolerated.
Dude, seriously. The Jews were monotheists as well, and the Romans had no problem with them as long as they kept the peace. The romans persecuted the christians, and the jews of the time also joined in (for the jews it was a religious matter). It was their mindset that was feared, because they had no fear or need for anything earthly. (And that is a big problem when you want to tax physical possessions.) Hence why the torture and executions became more and more creative, it became an amusement to try and find the breaking point of the human being. History rarely is straight forward. There are many other reasons of course. But the christians posed no physical threat. The perceived threat of what might happen was the driving force. The skit is nice because it is funny just by stating the obvious facts without trying to justify any side.
@@RVMTube The Romans regarded the Jews as being an ancient people and respected them as such. That respect only went so far (a very short distance, really), but it's why they didn't force them to worship the Roman pantheon. The Romans were happy to just continuously add more gods to their pantheon (they were really fond of the Celtic Epona, goddess of horses) and recognize one god of [insert topic here] as just another name for their own god of that same topic. They thought the idea of one God was wild, but since the Jews had been worshipping Him longer than Rome had been around, they figured "Eh, they've been doing this a lot longer than we have. Maybe they're right. We don't think so. But maybe." The main reason Christianity was so persecuted is because Romans were NOT fans of cults, and, according to the Jewish leaders of the time, that's what Christians were. Since the Jews didn't recognize Christianity, the Romans said no, no more monotheism! And especially no evangelizing! (It's much easier to control people when they're divided, after all-- you can just pit them against one another. That's politics.) They also were not fans of cannibalism, and apparently there was some serious confusion (understandably) for quite some time about what "eating the body and drinking the blood" actually meant.
The way it worked between the Romans and Jews was that the Jews were allowed to have their religion, but they had to make sacrifices on the emperor's behalf as well. Christianity teaches that Christ was the only perfect sacrifice, and God wants only the best available sacrifice. And since Christ's sacrifice covers all sin, past, present, and future in the life of anyone who would accept him. Because of this, sacrificing any animal to God as a Christian would be like offering God a bad sacrifice. This meant that Christians couldn't sacrifice on the Emperor's behalf, because they didn't sacrifice at all, so they were seen as Godless heathens and executed horribly.
Good drills, my Roman buddy! Persecute the Heathen Idolatrous Christian Scum! How dare they defy the will of our Gods and the wishes of our Glorious Ancestors!
What's happening to Christians in Vietnam? There's a huge church near my house that has been there for years and no one has a problem with it, most of Vietnam is atheist/believes in folk religion but 20% are either buddhists or Christians last time i check
More power to them, the Asians saw what happened to Rome after Theodisius the traitor and have learnt from it. Christian immigrants should go back to the Levant and let the world be ruled by traditional Eurasian values that have been tried and tested over the past 4,000 years.
im a christian but i really dont see why people are commenting about their own religion on here really , this video is showing what used to happen to christians nothing else
I didn't incinuate anything. I simplynoted the fact that language changesover Time and youcant use a modern English definition fo a word and project it back onto peopel speakign Latin or Greek 2000 years ago. You can look it uyp in an extensive Etymology book or website. Thisis a historical use.
The Romans, unlike immigrant Christians, were tolerant of other religions so long as they didn't force themselves onto the populations. Because of this, the Greek pantheon was incorporated into Roman culture, as was Zoroastrianism, the Egyptian pantheon, and the Jewish god. Christianity would have been too, if the immigrants weren't so invasive about it.
@WeAreTheRiot my comment was an ironic statement towards christian, not other religions because freezie said he/she was christian & this video relates to persecution of christians. i never made a statement about how many people have been killed by christian hands (although doubtless it is many) i gave C. Hitchens with reference to stalin/mao as he is more erudite than I. lips being chopped off O. Friedrich, The End of the world: A history 1982 pages 122-24.
Well since they were the first official branch that does make them the main part of christianity at least at the time. I don't really know why you took the time to comment because of 1 word.
Rome is an idea: Roam if you want to, roam around the garden of good and evil and consume and turn into beasts and be fed by the belly of the beast you're in, but sure, deny Christ who offered you a way out. I mean, the old gods, skin someone alive because they lost a bet with you about who was the better musician. You might want to reconsider your belief system. Matthew 6.
@rhyfelwrDuw Actually not true. Please do your homework before you comment. And by "homework" I mean more than what your evangelical non-denominational preacher tells you and no, I'm not Roman Catholic.
What I learned was that Jews were allowed to worship their own God and get out of mandatory festivals providing they paid a tax. The Romans respected them because Judaism was an old religion that had been around for some time. When Christians began to assert themselves as being non-Jewish (they had previously been viewed as a sect of Judaism) Romans began to have a problem with them because of the newness of their religion. Also, some Christians didn't accept Roman family structure.
Jews had to go through some persecution too, and of course suffered under them well before any?/many tried to live in the empire, so it's not as simple-as-that ! Also, it was not the 'newness' , it was moral-weakening, and the incompatibility of any god that claimed too much outside of their own domain/s.
Jews were one of the worst-persecuted, that period you're referring to, one at ONE TIME, one period. Understanding why roman occupation IN the kingdom of David, caused so much resentment, needs to include the religious persecution/colonization. it was not the "newness", of their relgion, it was the incompatibility of Jehovah, OUTSIDE, of his domain. Not that roman gods were meant to neccessarily be all respectful of others' either, don't get me wrong,.. but one that has too-much SCOPE ... all of humanity, etc ... is arrogant, essentially. The same criticism can be said of Roman absurdities about Jupiter having ... whatever ... all-of-humanity-originating-magic-power-balls 😝 ... It is of course unfair to assume that what humans have said and claimed of-a-god's OWN intent, is neccessarily what that god's necccessarily is, in the narrative, or in terms of how you might imagine their impact on-reality. For all all-of-humanity has ever known, perhaps it was never "all humanity" ... and was always "all bedouin peoples", as (at-least) one translation has it. If-so (if the narrative was never all-humanity) , the romans never had a reason to be grumpy on that basis, and we're all assuming too much in our modern , edited-upon-edited, aggrandized-upon-aggrandized OVER self-conceptualisations.
I don't say I support the fact that people are hating on each other because of religion but I don't think calling Atheists, Neo-Pagans, Hindus,etc... "God's children" will be appreciated by them. Because what you said is most likely to be interpreted as: "I'm Christian so I'm right and the rest of you is wrong but I love you anyway!"
But that's the point of every belief. Everyone who has a belief in something whether it be science, biology, historical events, religion etc believes their belief is correct and Everyone else's is wrong otherwise they wouldn't be teaching or encouraging others to believe in what they believe. If people don't believe in Jesus or when God calls His followers children of God then they shouldn't take offence cause to them it should be nothing more than a fantasy like saying "Santa's little helpers". In the end every faith or way of living people believe is the correct and true way. Hindus, Muslims, atheists etc say "what I believe is right and the rest of you are wrong". So people shouldn't be offended if Christians say it, although speaking as a Christian they shouldn't be gloating, but sadly humans make their own free choices and sometimes think of themselves before others.
That's because of what the word Atheist actuallymeans. it does not mean lsck of belefi in gods, it means no God. And techniclaly, how the word was used in Latin in the first 300 yesrs of Christianity Christians were Atheists given thattheyrejected the Roman gods. Its mroe a matter of how language has changed.
Flinging a christian up in the air in a city seems really dangerous, what if it lands on a roman
It's an act of God. Divine Retribution.
@@viix3815 *WE CAN'T EXPECT GOD TO DO ALL THE WORK*
If it does, I guess he won't be ROMAN ROMAN ROMAN.
That means he was cursed by the gods
Good point
Fun Fact: Horrible Histories is more historically accurate than your average classroom textbook.
They did get a few things wrong though, but it was my quilty pleasure to watch when my son used to watch it lol
Especially if you're in the American South. They don't seem to like facts much down there.
@@frankm.2850 I wouldn't be surprised if the average textbook is technically full of propaganda and is heavily censored because of how big some corrupt governments are.
Just the humor value makes this show worth it.
*Me thinking I’m the only one that still watches this show*
Stop arguing and enjoy Horrible Histories.
love how he tries to do ant and dec's accents hehe :)
I'm a geordie, I think he did a decent job :)
I'd love to see Matt Hancock go on this show.
Aw! When Jim says "Let's find out who's first up," Larry hugs Mat!
That's not Larry but it's still cute
*lawry
The funny thing is that when Constantine legalized Christianity it quickly became the most popular religion
It wasn't just 'legalised' and naturally rose to popularity, it was made the new state religion and enforced as such. The romans believed that religious homogeneity was extremely important to the prosperity of the empire (the idea that it didn't matter too much who the people were worshipping, as long as everyone worshipped the same), which is why they were normally so accepting of external pantheons and fond of the tactic of conflating foreign gods with their own, in effect having all their subjects worshipping the same pantheon under a variety of names.
Constantine was Christian himself (Scholars are uncertain why exactly) and saw the steady growth of it among the lower classes. Because the tenets of Christianity are antithetical to an accepting stance with polytheistic religions, he though the only way to maintain religious homogeneity would be if everyone was Christian.
@@Digitize27 that is true but also Constantine was not necessarily Christian per say. He never converted until the end of his reign and it was never clear if he was a believer or merely a damn good politician but it was probably both
@@generalsmite7167 Constantine being baptised on his death bed doesn't mean that he converted on his death bed. That was quite normal at the time as people believed baptised washed away your sins. By getting baptised on your death bed, it was a more sure path to salvation
Which makes me wonder, if this historical event never happened, and Christianity didn't rise to to be so popular, how would have history change?
@@Digitize27 Nah you're mistaken, Theodosius is the guy who made Christianity the state religion, Constantinue just legalized it.
After watching this, I'm starting to think that St Sebastian got off easy!
Yeah, getting shot full of arrows seems tame compared to being thrown over a wall by a catapult!
Lmao this is like a Mitchell and Webb skit and it's awesome.
Horrible histories is absolutely and utterly legendary gold class
Best show ever
Didn't realise he had a beard until the last second of the video
So sad that this all really happened..
They also forgot to mention about burning them 😢
Well, if any impositional religion says only-we're-right, and everyone else is wrong, they're asking for trouble, (romans included - i.e. BOTH ). Perhaps not this MUCH, but that's how it goes. A major problem w christianity is it's SCOPE - i.e. all of humankind, the whole world, the whole universe even. Arrogant. How about humanity still-in desert sands/lands, pre-cars & heavy-labor machinery roads where bedouin / desert/s-peoples might-need-more-order for less conflict, & benefit from not having the "door slammed in their face" "when starving of thirst", reasonably. What are they doing talking-bleeep in jungles?
Christianity is only “arrogant” if it’s not true
@@vurrath7716 what were you even getting at? you provided nothing but a rant with no evidence or really any point to go off of except the claim that religious people are arrogant. I swear atheists gotta get their daily "believing in a religion is delusional and anyone who does is arrogant and insane" just so they can feel better about their own beliefs while acting smarter than everyone around them because they don't believe in a higher power. "we definitely have everything correct, no one else could be right about anything, look at science!" like seriously no religious person has ever claimed they know everything for certain, it's just silly. What we do claim is that there is a God, the higher power who created everything as we know it. For you to call Christian's arrogant is one hypocritical ass statement considering you act like you have true knowledge of the Universe's existence and all religious perspectives, as well as how they would've operated, came to be and existed through out history. Like at least realise that not only your perspective has chance of being true, there is millions of things in modern science we think we know that will be disproven in the future.
One point I'd also like to add based off of science, if energy and mass cannot be create or destroyed, and all mass will eventually radioactively decay into a single element, that means that at the beginning of the Universe, everything would've been at a single point, in stagnation. Since that's the case, the Universe (and the big bang) could not have occurred without and outside source of energy, and if all the energy to exist was in that stagnated point of mass and energy, then only an outside force with more energy than in the entire Universe could have produced an effect such as the big bang (aka only an omnipotent God could have the capabilities and power required to make the Big Bang occur.) Therefore, for the Universe to exist, for it to have begun existing at all, as anything more than just a single dot of mass, God has to have started it. Someone has to have kicked the ball into motion. (plus the ball would't even be there to be kicked into motion without first being created by God so..)
@@LionsInBoots if you think a man in the sky allows christians to murder and harass people for being gay black or another religion (that is written in your lovely book!) and enslave others, i'm not going to think anything other than you are arrogant and insane
prove your god is read other than saying "umm i dont know the answer to the big bang so a man created everything and pulled a woman out of a mans chest ok"
Thank you for posting this I've never seen this one before?
Is it from series 3?
1:42 look at Mat... =(
1:42
This belies the fact that all peoples, not just christians, could suffer this fate. It wasn't specifically against christians, but anyone that broke roman law.
"Bit late for that one, Blandina"
What's more is that the real Blandina did not live in Tyre and she was thrown into a pit of lions.
Honestly I can see this being a thing. It might flop, but I could see people cracking up about it
The Golden Age of TV
And modern christians complain about being persecuted when someone brings up the whole "separation of church and state" thing...
Or gay marriage.
Martha is great here
At least Larry's nice
This is the one thing my school sent me for schoolwork that was actually semi entertaining... but roman law is still wrong
By your standards, but remeber Roman culture and by default laws and ethics. Roman society by the this time was focusing on keeping the empire together, which had often become staggered due to many changes in government. Christianity completly throw society into discord, and not simply because they were monotheistic (Jewish and Zoroastrian citizens existed happily in the empire), but because they rejected the very rule of the emperor and senate.
Also, something this is skit doesn’t mention is that many of the records of the killings and persecutions come from Christian sources centuries later. And the Roman, Jewish and many other sources actually mention the early Christians being more violent. So what we may have perceived as simple persecution from reading years of Christianized history, may have actually been a reactionary measure to terroism within the empire.
Later Roman law gave us the groundwork for modern legal systems through Justinian's Juris Civilius
@@dylantennant6594 Maybe? but that seems a little far fetched, keep in mind the persecutions started at the very start of Christianity's existence, not to mention if it was simply to keep Christians under control that certainly doesn't explain the horrific tortures they implemented for Christians, the romans weren't always the most tolerant people but these things are difficult to track because pretty much every source had an agenda . Keep in mind both Jewish, Roman, and Christian sources would be biased. And it does make sense that the Christians where the ones to write the sources, its very uncommon for the people dealing the persecutions to keep a record of what they where doing.
@@GuyMaleMan A big part of their prosecution was the fact that they refused to acknowledge the divinity of the emperor and kept publicly denouncing him.
@@dylantennant6594 Jews had to be almost exterminated at least once, before they acknowledged Roman dominion. I suspect that delivered the message about not going against the emperor quite well.
I'm a person who doesn't want to see a religion war in the comments section...GET ME OUT OF HERE!
I ❤ HORRIBLE HISTORIESSS
All of this just for the next Emperor to make Christianity official
They should do something about Christian persecution in Japan and call it
AnD yOu ThOuGhT tHe RoMaNs WeRe BaD!!!
Yes, the Christians who staged a violent coup in 1637, which attempted to place a Jesuit European governorship over Japan by overthrowing the shogun and the emperor. I’m sure Japan had no reason to persecute Christians.
@@dylantennant6594 The Japanese also saw Christian missionary’s as an arm of European colonization ITSELF seeing its very existence as a threat to its culture.
Aww, so he does! Sweet C:
As an adult, i feel a bit bad about actually enjoying Horrible Histories.
Also love Ghosts, made by them too.
I'm fairly certain he was being sarcastic.
As a Christian I can verify that life was this terrifying
Nice acting from Martha.
Me and My Sister Love Horrible history
Romans were really worried about the gods getting upset . They thought it was bad news to not respect all the gods.Their concepts of religion wanted folks to respect all the gods (just in case).They would have been happy to worship the god of Abraham as long he entered the Pantheon besides other gods. They thought Christians were "atheist" for rejecting other gods. They thought it odd that people would die so as not to respect other gods. Roman govs gave christians every chance to sacrafice.
"besides" finally, someone understanding the problem of any/all mono-s. Disagree about every-chance to sacrifice though, too-consistent a statement for something INconsistent. Supressing their open-preaching/worship happened quite a lot - Grand open roman temples, while christians had to do it in private in their own homes, abandoned buildings, etc. nothing VISIBLE, outside. Only over-time, was it eventually tolerated.
Oh how good and merciful of the Romans, they wouldn't have persecuted us if we just gave up all we believed in 😁
Dude, seriously. The Jews were monotheists as well, and the Romans had no problem with them as long as they kept the peace. The romans persecuted the christians, and the jews of the time also joined in (for the jews it was a religious matter). It was their mindset that was feared, because they had no fear or need for anything earthly. (And that is a big problem when you want to tax physical possessions.) Hence why the torture and executions became more and more creative, it became an amusement to try and find the breaking point of the human being. History rarely is straight forward. There are many other reasons of course. But the christians posed no physical threat. The perceived threat of what might happen was the driving force.
The skit is nice because it is funny just by stating the obvious facts without trying to justify any side.
@@RVMTube The Romans regarded the Jews as being an ancient people and respected them as such. That respect only went so far (a very short distance, really), but it's why they didn't force them to worship the Roman pantheon. The Romans were happy to just continuously add more gods to their pantheon (they were really fond of the Celtic Epona, goddess of horses) and recognize one god of [insert topic here] as just another name for their own god of that same topic. They thought the idea of one God was wild, but since the Jews had been worshipping Him longer than Rome had been around, they figured "Eh, they've been doing this a lot longer than we have. Maybe they're right. We don't think so. But maybe." The main reason Christianity was so persecuted is because Romans were NOT fans of cults, and, according to the Jewish leaders of the time, that's what Christians were. Since the Jews didn't recognize Christianity, the Romans said no, no more monotheism! And especially no evangelizing! (It's much easier to control people when they're divided, after all-- you can just pit them against one another. That's politics.) They also were not fans of cannibalism, and apparently there was some serious confusion (understandably) for quite some time about what "eating the body and drinking the blood" actually meant.
The way it worked between the Romans and Jews was that the Jews were allowed to have their religion, but they had to make sacrifices on the emperor's behalf as well.
Christianity teaches that Christ was the only perfect sacrifice, and God wants only the best available sacrifice. And since Christ's sacrifice covers all sin, past, present, and future in the life of anyone who would accept him. Because of this, sacrificing any animal to God as a Christian would be like offering God a bad sacrifice.
This meant that Christians couldn't sacrifice on the Emperor's behalf, because they didn't sacrifice at all, so they were seen as Godless heathens and executed horribly.
@MrAliffAxis That was meant to be a joke.
seriously, what UK accent is Jim doing here???! 😂 It seems Welsh, or somewhere in the Midlands (enlighten this American/Canadian!)
It is a Newcastle/North East accent. Like Ant and Dec!
Okay, thanks so much and I will check those Ant and Dec guys out to get this accent better adhered to my brain, lol!
sounded like his regular voice to me
I side with the Roman. Never had a polytheist knock on my door and try to shove their religion down my throat.
Allow me to introduce you to the biggest polytheistic door knockers of all: Mormons.
Good drills, my Roman buddy! Persecute the Heathen Idolatrous Christian Scum! How dare they defy the will of our Gods and the wishes of our Glorious Ancestors!
@rangergxi I absolutely LOVE sarcasm. :P
London 2023
No army of ANY country ever marched into war without they boasted 'God Is On Our Side'
He cant be on BOTH sides.
!
Unless he’s a sadistic child with his toy soldiers
I declare you a Saint. You're the protector of the PO-TA-TOES now.
It's sad but true look what's going on over in Vietnam, North Korea, some African Nations, Middle Eastern nations, and especially China.
China? try looking up the league of militant atheists ! Now THERE's taking religion seriously!
What's happening to Christians in Vietnam? There's a huge church near my house that has been there for years and no one has a problem with it, most of Vietnam is atheist/believes in folk religion but 20% are either buddhists or Christians last time i check
More power to them, the Asians saw what happened to Rome after Theodisius the traitor and have learnt from it. Christian immigrants should go back to the Levant and let the world be ruled by traditional Eurasian values that have been tried and tested over the past 4,000 years.
@MrAliffAxis No problem my friend :)
The Romans hated Christians; anyone ever hear about what they did to Saint Sebastian? And Saint Catherine?
All hail the Ares :P
2021 entertainment
That's funny.
I'm a Christian
Is this was they play in saudi arabia?
i love this video it’s my fav
Well... That was dark.
11 years ago
im a christian but i really dont see why people are commenting about their own religion on here really , this video is showing what used to happen to christians nothing else
Pk the spikes were horrific.
God... I loved this show when I was growing up.
Gods*
Rome: "They had me at the first half not gonna lie"
too many christians, not enough lions.
regardless, sometimes i'm ashamed to human.
A roman... With a northern accent. 😅😅
Needs more gory stuff
I am a celebrity get me out of here
so whens the next episode beigin?
Why does the Roman guy have a Scottish accent?
Lol they would think its a Christian ironically in that time Christians were called atheists by the romans
Man. This is my dream job. Do I get my own toga?
I'm a Christian. *DON'T EVEN BOTHER TRYING* to get me out of here.
If they think that was bad, do they even know what they did to St Sebastian?
who's they?
@GoDLiKeKakashi hmmmm well, in US, its more protestant and catholic balance... but I don't know how it is everywhere else in the world.
I love Horrible Histories #horriblehistories #sixidiots
I didn't incinuate anything. I simplynoted the fact that language changesover Time and youcant use a modern English definition fo a word and project it back onto peopel speakign Latin or Greek 2000 years ago.
You can look it uyp in an extensive Etymology book or website. Thisis a historical use.
Where's Roman Dec?
@WeAreTheRiot i accept your apology and admire you for it ;)
@GoDLiKeKakashi Going to church makes you a Christian as much as going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger...
666th like ;)
Looks like I’m 9 years late
When was this 2011
Dam I'm way too late, 11 YEARS AGO?!?
I am using it correctly.
they should've tried harder, we could've avoided a lot of messes
you know, that doesn't make them any better...
oh those Romans and their silly antics :P
@GoDLiKeKakashi well, actually, Protestantism and Catholicism are equal as the biggest branches of Christianity...
Ares was a greek god...
The Romans, unlike immigrant Christians, were tolerant of other religions so long as they didn't force themselves onto the populations. Because of this, the Greek pantheon was incorporated into Roman culture, as was Zoroastrianism, the Egyptian pantheon, and the Jewish god. Christianity would have been too, if the immigrants weren't so invasive about it.
@WeAreTheRiot my comment was an ironic statement towards christian, not other religions because freezie said he/she was christian & this video relates to persecution of christians. i never made a statement about how many people have been killed by christian hands (although doubtless it is many) i gave C. Hitchens with reference to stalin/mao as he is more erudite than I. lips being chopped off O. Friedrich, The End of the world: A history 1982 pages 122-24.
I live in the Roman Empire and I’m wondering is loving Jesus legal yet?
After Home-School propaganda
I said it was KJV , the KJV wasn't around until 1611
Well since they were the first official branch that does make them the main part of christianity at least at the time. I don't really know why you took the time to comment because of 1 word.
LOL, this video is funny!
I agree
@freezie411 Not like they formed the basis for western society and conquered tons of land gloriously.
"the" basis ... for "the". Don't take too many gambles-on-plurals, you might bust a vein. 🙂
Rome is an idea: Roam if you want to, roam around the garden of good and evil and consume and turn into beasts and be fed by the belly of the beast you're in, but sure, deny Christ who offered you a way out. I mean, the old gods, skin someone alive because they lost a bet with you about who was the better musician. You might want to reconsider your belief system. Matthew 6.
This is why Muhammad invented taqiyya and kitman.
@rhyfelwrDuw Actually not true. Please do your homework before you comment. And by "homework" I mean more than what your evangelical non-denominational preacher tells you and no, I'm not Roman Catholic.
what's not true?.. whether or not things like this were ever done to Christians? Lie-in-hope, christian.
@RRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH huh I would of thought that because of South America Catholic is bigger
What I learned was that Jews were allowed to worship their own God and get out of mandatory festivals providing they paid a tax. The Romans respected them because Judaism was an old religion that had been around for some time. When Christians began to assert themselves as being non-Jewish (they had previously been viewed as a sect of Judaism) Romans began to have a problem with them because of the newness of their religion. Also, some Christians didn't accept Roman family structure.
Jews had to go through some persecution too, and of course suffered under them well before any?/many tried to live in the empire, so it's not as simple-as-that ! Also, it was not the 'newness' , it was moral-weakening, and the incompatibility of any god that claimed too much outside of their own domain/s.
Jews were one of the worst-persecuted, that period you're referring to, one at ONE TIME, one period. Understanding why roman occupation IN the kingdom of David, caused so much resentment, needs to include the religious persecution/colonization. it was not the "newness", of their relgion, it was the incompatibility of Jehovah, OUTSIDE, of his domain. Not that roman gods were meant to neccessarily be all respectful of others' either, don't get me wrong,.. but one that has too-much SCOPE ... all of humanity, etc ... is arrogant, essentially. The same criticism can be said of Roman absurdities about Jupiter having ... whatever ... all-of-humanity-originating-magic-power-balls 😝 ... It is of course unfair to assume that what humans have said and claimed of-a-god's OWN intent, is neccessarily what that god's necccessarily is, in the narrative, or in terms of how you might imagine their impact on-reality. For all all-of-humanity has ever known, perhaps it was never "all humanity" ... and was always "all bedouin peoples", as (at-least) one translation has it. If-so (if the narrative was never all-humanity) , the romans never had a reason to be grumpy on that basis, and we're all assuming too much in our modern , edited-upon-edited, aggrandized-upon-aggrandized OVER self-conceptualisations.
and don't forget the spikes! lol
Considering the amount of missing spaces, misspelt words and unnecessary capitalization; No, no you're not.
They wouldn't have been born again,the phrase didn't appear until the KJV bible.
I don't say I support the fact that people are hating on each other because of religion but I don't think calling Atheists, Neo-Pagans, Hindus,etc... "God's children" will be appreciated by them. Because what you said is most likely to be interpreted as: "I'm Christian so I'm right and the rest of you is wrong but I love you anyway!"
Ironically that's what made the Roman's hate the christians so much.
But that's the point of every belief. Everyone who has a belief in something whether it be science, biology, historical events, religion etc believes their belief is correct and Everyone else's is wrong otherwise they wouldn't be teaching or encouraging others to believe in what they believe. If people don't believe in Jesus or when God calls His followers children of God then they shouldn't take offence cause to them it should be nothing more than a fantasy like saying "Santa's little helpers". In the end every faith or way of living people believe is the correct and true way. Hindus, Muslims, atheists etc say "what I believe is right and the rest of you are wrong". So people shouldn't be offended if Christians say it, although speaking as a Christian they shouldn't be gloating, but sadly humans make their own free choices and sometimes think of themselves before others.
lol
That's because of what the word Atheist actuallymeans. it does not mean lsck of belefi in gods, it means no God. And techniclaly, how the word was used in Latin in the first 300 yesrs of Christianity Christians were Atheists given thattheyrejected the Roman gods. Its mroe a matter of how language has changed.