I'm reading "The Christians as the Romans Saw Them". It is interesting how little has changed in 2000 years. One of the primary complaints the Romans had about the Christians was that they taught "do not question, just believe".
Not many Roman critiques of Christianity survive. But Galen, the physician, sited Jews and Christians repeatedly as examples of people who it was not worth arguing with because they did not respond to reason.
I started reading the book because I suspected that what we call "religion" they called "philosophy". Galen talks about what we would call the "religion of Judaism" as the "teachings of Moses", the same way he talks about the teachings of other philosophical schools.
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I'm reading "The Christians as the Romans Saw Them". It is interesting how little has changed in 2000 years. One of the primary complaints the Romans had about the Christians was that they taught "do not question, just believe".
Not many Roman critiques of Christianity survive. But Galen, the physician, sited Jews and Christians repeatedly as examples of people who it was not worth arguing with because they did not respond to reason.
I started reading the book because I suspected that what we call "religion" they called "philosophy". Galen talks about what we would call the "religion of Judaism" as the "teachings of Moses", the same way he talks about the teachings of other philosophical schools.
It's a very interesting book.
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