Christianity in Rome was persecuted in its start for several reasons including that it was a threat to the Pax Romana, and it was an easy target to use as a scapegoat. For example, The Life of Tiberius Caesar, written in 100 CE by Suetonius states the persecution of Christians by an emperor “He abolished foreign cults [from Rome], especially the Egyptian and the Jewish rites, compelling all who were addicted to such superstitions to burn their religious vestments and all their paraphernalia.” Caesar was banishing these religions, Christianity being a Jewish sect included, because they were different, and if people converted to these other religions this would be a potential disruption of the Pax Romana. Furthermore, on July 16 CE, the “Great
