• He came over to your side yesterday and is changing the state over to your ideology. They're still going to do imperialism and slavery and everything, and nothing will fundamentally change, but it'll still be your ideology, totally.

  • They've been feeding you to lions for centuries because of your refusal to acknowledge the state's authority. Now they'll stop, unless you deviate from the state-approved version in any way, in which case they'll burn you at the stake. The state-approved version involves acknowledging the state's authority.

  • He seems oddly keen on having everyone go around flashing a symbol of the cruel and humiliating way the state brutally executed your founder.

  • You don't get a say in what the state-approved version will look like, but he'll preside over ever meeting deciding that. There won't be any more communes.

Your network of communes began as a doomsday cult eagerly waiting for the apocalypse to happen where the empire you live under would be destroyed, but that didn't happen so you've all just been kinda hanging out in secret meetings trying to support each other and survive :doomer:

  • DoubleShot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Just as a minor point here, but Christians were never fed to lions and the level of official persecution against Christians by the Roman state was far, far less than Christians make it out to be. Nero persecuted Christians within Rome for a little bit. And one of the later emperors - I think it was Diocletian - did try to persecute Christians across the empire but basically no one went along with it. Julian the Apostate hated Christians but likewise didn't really do much. Basically for the first couple centuries Christians were largely mocked and the religion derided as something only for slaves, women, and children, up until you get closer to the time of Constantine and when it was starting to get a bit "trendy".

    Source: Candida Moss' excellent The Myth of Persecution