Elites in a do or die moment. In fear for their lives.
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The irony is that you live in a time where the ruling class has almost fully switched from using Christianity to Science as the preferred population control technique, and yet believe that Rome did not co-opt Christianity
I think you're compressing the history here, like it was a flipping of a switch, to go from the persecutions, to Constantine's Edit of Milan (making Christianity legal, but not the state religion) to Julian the Apostate trying to bring pagan worship back, to the empire split down the middle with the Arian Heresy (including the church hierarchy) to the final victory of Christianity over pagan Rome with Theodosius towards the end of the empire in the west. A metric fuck-ton of history. Not to mention the fact that the barbarians that came in basically required missionaries, primarily Irish ones, to reconvert the remnants of the Western Empire.
You can make comparisons to today, but frankly, they're not very apt.
How is anything I said compressing history? Do you know what co-opt means?
Because your ignorance on the subject is so profound, that you think what was an existential cultural struggle that took centuries was a "co-opt" job.