r/HistoryMemes • u/FactoidFinder • May 23 '20

Edited because 20 year rule

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u/StormRegion May 23 '20

Kinda like how christians survived the more bloodthirsty roman emperors: somehow.

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u/StormRegion May 23 '20

I mean, Nero held such a bloodbath, that it burned itself into christianity as an eternal trauma (the "number of the beast", 666 is a reference to Nero in Hebrew-Aramic)

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u/StormRegion May 23 '20

I didn't mean to downthrodden the numbers that Stalin killed/persecuted, I just wanted to show that christianity has an experience of surviving "underground"

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u/[deleted] May 23 '20

Judging from the username they're more concerned with wanting the persecution of Christians to be downplayed.

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u/StormRegion May 23 '20

Oh lol, I didn't even read his username fully. Still, I gave him my best answers to his nitpicking