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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m tired of this “Christianity was created to control the people” argument. If that’s true, why do all totalitarian regimes ban Bibles and persecute Christian? Why would Nero have killed Christians if that were the means to control people?

It’s nonsense, and if you were intelligent, you’d stop saying it. [/quote]

The atheists on this board just got exposed today; pay them no nevermind.[/quote]

Again, are you serious?

Nero?[/quote]
I guess I should have elucidated for you. The sufferings that Peter is mentioning in the Book of Peter in the New Testament are most likely a contemporaneous mention of the killings of Christians by Nero. So if religion were used to control the masses, why was Nero killing them at the complete outset of their religion? Not a very good propaganda move to get people into the religion so you can control them. Unless by "control" them you mean kill them, which I know you don't.

Again, it's a stupid argument that intelligent people should't make.[/quote]

Because Nero had a different religion (Roman paganism), and wanted that to be in control?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome[/quote]

Yes.  Nero believed he was a god. He did not want competition for that view among his citizens, and the Christians had their own god.  
Obviously he didn't want to "control" them so much as eliminate them.[/quote]
You guys are constantly moving the goal posts. The assertion is made on posts in the Religion Forum repeatedly that Christianity is a much of made-up stories that were made up for the express purpose of controlling people. Now you're arguing that it was other religions that wanted to be in control. Which is it?[/quote]

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