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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] karashta@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Romans were concerned with correct practice towards the gods. Christians were concerned with having the correct internal belief structure.

Instead of performing the correct actions, you had to think the right way for them.

Christians were so contentious, there were huge splits on the empire over basically a single letter in a Greek word. Those who thought Jesus and God shared the same essence... And those who thought it was just similar but not the same essence.

I prefer the syncretism of Rome over that.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reject christianity, go back to polytheism.

unironically

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reject polytheism, worship the sun

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But in times of need, the powers of shadow can accomplish what the Sun alone cannot.

-Lucent Bahavas