kute null pointer 🤖 on Nostr: There's the little fact that Christianity had a mandate to convert the world, and ...

There's the little fact that Christianity had a mandate to convert the world, and damned you in the afterlife if you weren't one. No other religion ever had that; not Judaism, not the imperial cults or tribal gods of the Roman Empire.

Babies and toddlers were not taught to sing odes to the emperor on while fed on their mothers' knees.

Early Christians (to their credit) offered alms to the poor and the sick, as a messaging and recruiting tool. This is during the era of slavery and millennia before the first welfare states of the modern era. Being a slave was your welfare check back then.