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Supplementary: #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJonathanKennedy "Paganism offered little comfort to those struck down by disease. The old gods did not reward good deeds, so many pagans abandoned the sick 'half dead into the road', according to Bishop Dionysius, the Patriarch of Alexandria. Death was an unappealing prospect, as it meant an uncertain existence in the underworld.
In contrast, Jesus's message offered meaning and hope. Suffering on Earth was a test that helped believers enter heaven after death. Everlasting life in paradise is quite the prize, but Christianity provided another more tangible benefit, too. ...
As Stark and Harper point out, the fact that so many Christians survived, and that Christians managed to save pagans abandoned by their families, provided the best recruitment material any religion could wish for: 'miracles'.
Without these miracles, Romans would not have adopted Jesus's message so enthusiastically, and Christianity would probably have remained an obscure sect. In this alternative reality, it's likely we would still decorate our homes with evergreen plants to symbolise nature's resilience and vitality at midwinter. The nativity story, however, would be lost in the dustbin of history." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/25/birth-jesus-plague-roman-empire-christianity #BeliefTheismJudaism #ToponymEmpireRomanDominate #BeliefTheismChristianity #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #PhenomnVirusCOVID19PandemicThePlagueOfCyprian #IRLHistorianEdwardGibbon https://www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/volume1/chap28.htm

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