>>6060783Sigh this again. Pre 100 AD Christianity had only begun converting gentile Roman citizens, and was still attempting to distinguish itself as a gentile, rather than a semitic religion. It gained converts first among Roman legionnaires fighting against the various Jewish revolts, where the soldiers blended the beliefs with the Cult of Sol Invictus. The cult of Mithras was also popular at the time, but it had far less influence than Sol Invictus, which infused Christianity with the signature martial, Roman character it displayed by the time of Constantine's IN HOC SIGNO VINCES visions > 300 AD.
Christianity was a thoroughly martial, Roman religion by 150 AD, blended with the cult of Sol Invictus, supplanting lesser cults such as Mithras, which never rejected polytheism.
