A.D. 2xx

>A.D. 2xx
>Be Roman citizen
>Hard but ultimately rewarding life as a farmer
>Traditional values based on the worship of Ceres
>Direct line of cultural inheritance to Ancient Greece
>Life in Rome is pretty comfy
>Only threat is from outside
>Dirty smelly Christians invading from the East
>Population is tired from battling these Jesus-types for over a hundred years
>Too much blood and treasure wasted
>Your own degenerate emperor is sympathetic to their backward desert religion
>You fear that Rome may fall to these sheep-herding savages
>You worry that in 2000 years, people will claim the civilisation your noble people built will be claimed as a "Christian" invention

what emperor in the 200s was sympathetic to christianity? also you seem to be suggesting that christians were barbarian invaders. the germanic tribes did convert to arianism, but not in this time period. there were cases of christians attacking pagan temples to try to become martyrs, but otherwise they were normal roman citizens who faced various levels of persecution depending on the place and time. change it to 3xx, edit a few details and it's 10/10

>there were cases of christians attacking pagan temples to try to become martyrs
Absolutely disgusting. Imagine if people did that sort of thing today...

>Only threat is from outside

on a similar note Martin of Tours is a popular saint in France and he roamed the countryside of Gaul destroying idols and pagan temples

Eternal Turkroach

>mfw I did a Charles der Großer and threw away all paganshit from my mothers house

>Direct line of cultural inheritance to Ancient Greece

t. Gaius

Latins can't claim that shit, they just barged into Athens and realized how coarse their language and culture were.

That Mexican shitposter again
Why post this 10 times a day?

>Dirty smelly Christians invading from the East
>Population is tired from battling these Jesus-types for over a hundred years
what the fuck are you talking about, there was no christian state before rome

>there was no christian state before rome

Apart from Armenia, and a few others.

>throwing away your own mother's property
scum

That's what Rome gets for being multiethnic. Should have given roman citizenship only to those descendants of Romulus.

oh yes, who can forget the invasion of the Roman empire by the Armenian hoardes in 301 AD, 12 years before Constantine converted (obviously to avoid their wrath), foreshadowing the goths, huns and saracens

B-but muh welfare panem!
Who will pay my pension and the legions if not roman egyptians and roman germanics?

>A.D. 20xx
>Be European citizen
>Hard but ultimately rewarding life as a telemarketing sales"person"
>Traditional values based on the post-Christian enlightenment
>Direct line of cultural inheritance to Jerusalem and Ancient Rome
>Life in Europe is pretty comfy
>Only threat is from outside
>Dirty smelly Muslims invading from the East
>Population is tired from battling these Allahu Akbar types for over a hundred years
>Too much blood and treasure wasted
>Your own degenerate presidents and prime ministers are sympathetic to their backward desert religion
>You fear that Europe may fall to these gay-stoning, hyper-breeding savages
>You worry that in 2000 years, people will claim the civilisation your noble people built will be claimed as an "Islamic" invention

What a traitorous piece of shit

YOU HATEFUL FEARMONGER!
THE CHRISTIANS ARE ONLY HERE TEMPORARILY; THEY WILL RETURN AS SOON AS THEY FIX THINGS UP BACK HOME!
THEY DON'T WANT TO CONVERT THE WHOLE ROMAN EMPIRE AND BAN ALL OTHER RELIGIONS, THEY JUST WANT TO LIVE IN PIECE AND DIVERSITY!

I think you have tried to invent a historical circumstance to make a point about our present times, rather than using a historical circumstance that actually happened.

What a fascinating response (if genuine).

This may be the only period in history where preserving past empires and civilisations is prioritised.

This extends even to preserving your enemy's civilisation in the present (it is no longer acceptable to obliterate a subdued enemy, yet total annihilation was the standard through much of - perhaps all of history)

>>Dirty smelly Muslims invading from the East
People who ritually wash 5 times a day as opposed to you Christians who believe washing is a sin. Sure

>Muslims are cleaner than Christians
I hope you're not including Mormons

Mormons are the cleanest people I've ever met.

The cleanest people are always the dirtiest.

>property
spooky

wut

I think he means OCD criminal psychopaths, including many high profile CEO's.

People who seem squeaky clean, metaphorically speaking, are always corrupt and dirty.

Paul was doing it from the get-go, running up to pagan temples and showing off that idols weren't eating the offerings and other my-god-is-better ancient dickwaving.
He must have been a powerful speaker (Epistles IS pretty good), since he's something of an obnoxious douchebag (though I suppose that's what you get from a dude who is introduced as originally going to go persecute Christians to begin with before god says "be MY doucher").

We sort of figured out somewhere along the line that keeping objects and pieces of art isn't actually going to convert us to works of the devil or other such things. As well, we're hyper-prosperous compared to other eras to the point we actually can support curation of enemy curio pieces out of academic interest.

Also, militarily, nobody really bothers with obliterating people from existence as a people/culture anymore. It's an assload of work in the Information Age, so why bother? You're not normally taking clay anymore outside of the middle east.

>average roman family
>the kids of a spaniard of italian origins and an illirian
welp, if anything that's an unlikely match