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In fact, I think the reason they took such drastic steps was because they were not only frightened, but also terribly attracted to it

easy to see why the Romans usually so tolerant of foreign religions, persecuted the Christians mercilessly, how absurd to think a common criminal had risen from the dead how appalling that his followers celebrated him by drinking his blood the logic of it frightened them and they did everything they could to crush it.