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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Explanation: Romans, like followers of many ancient polytheistic faiths, were far from averse from taking in new gods into their pantheon. While there was certainly precedence and extra gravity afforded to proper, ROMAN gods, the worship of foreign cult gods, such as Isis from Egypt, or Mithra from Persia, was common, acceptable, and widespread alongside worship of indigenous gods.

The Romans furthermore regarded most foreign gods as simply their own gods under different names - though DOUBTLESSLY Mars has a special love for Rome, the god of war probably does not care overmuch if he's worshipped under some foreign, barbarian name, or in a good, Latin tongue! As such, Romans generally found little reason to interfere with the faiths of those they conquered, who they regarded as following essentially the same basic thinking and theology, just in strange ways.

Christians ended up a bit more contentious. Belief, and belief in the correct thing, is important to salvation of the soul in Christianity, and as such, Christians, and especially early Christians, end up with more... heated divisions between sects and faiths.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Belief, and belief in the correct thing, is important to salvation of the soul in Christianity

Sola gratia - the belief that belief is not important to salvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_gratia

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

That's why catholics hate reformists.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was just listening to a podcast about Genghis Kahn and how they would just throw in every religion of places they took into the meta

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

If memory serves, under Ogedei Khan they even had a debate with judges and scoring between major religions, lmao

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Christian faith was initially allowed in Rome, just like Mithraism, however the allure proved to great for Constantine and it became the de facto faith.

However Christianity absorbed a lot of rituals of pagan religions in order to gain foothold in the North.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There only one thing Christians hate more than pagans and infidels - other slightly different Christians

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

As the saying goes:

Heretics are worse that Heathens

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

My high school girlfriend's parents were catholic and they used to say: The only thing worse than a heretic is a protestant all the time. They meant it in jest, but the joke was that plenty of others didn't say it and did mean it.

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every religious figure ever: "Everyone love everybody!"

Every religious person ever: "Wow fuck that guy over there!"

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Every Internet Atheist ever: "Every religious person ever ..."

Pot, kettle, black.

/jest

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

he's ours* now