The Spread Of Christianity In The Roman Empire

At first, Christianity was just another religion that was practiced inside the Roman empire. Within time, the religion spread at a rapid pace along with the loving and hopeful atmosphere the religion provided to the people. Often times, people that join new religions are the wealthy and common people, that wasn’t the case for the rise and spread of this religion, many poor and uncommon beings would convert to Christianity because it gave them the tools in life to be happy and that why many people believe Christianity spread and stayed around so much more proficiently than any other religion. Jesus, the Son of God and the most trusted and followed man within the religion, made it clear to everyone that money causes problems, and to be saved by his father, God, you must care more about yourself and the things around you; that’s exactly what the people practicing the religion did. Because the religion was composed of mostly poor people, the Roman empire despised their practices and found ways to manipulate their beliefs and way of life so they had reason to prosecute anyone that …show more content…
Rather than being forced to marry or have a child they could choose when they wanted to do those things. Women weren’t dying while giving birth because they are given the opportunity to have a child at the age of seventeen or eighteen as opposed to thirteen of fourteen. With that opportunity, the amount of people in the religion grew at a rapid pace with both the mother and the child having a much better chance to survive. But what about the fathers? Well, women were also allowed to marry men that were Pagan’s. The women could bring them into their homes and the men would feel the love, care and hope in the environment and convert to Christianity. Their wives were playing major roles in the functioning of the churches also, so without women in this religion the rise and spread process would have taken much