Christianity is the world’s largest religion today. The rise of Christianity can be trace back to 4 B.C.E when Jesus was born. He was born in a town in Galilee and as the son of Joseph. When he was young, he went into the desert for prayer and reflection. After he came back from the desert, he began to tech in Galilee, and soon he had many disciples. While one day, when Jesus was praying alone, one of his disciples betrayed him and brought the priests and the temple soldiers into the garden to arrest Jesus, Jesus was took to a hill and nailed his hands and feet to a cross. Jesus died but the Christianity was spread by him.
Before his event, In 900 BC, two kings David and Solomon, united the Israelites and created the Kingdom of Israel. Soon the Israel divided into two countries was taken over by powerful countries. Israel was destroyed, but the people of Judah which were called Jews survived. The Romans took over Judah, and changed it into a province called Judea. Some Jews argued and thought they fight the Romans and take back control of their Kingdom, so they rebelled. While Romans killed Jews and the Jews rebelled many times but failed every time. So some of the Jews found new home. The Jews hated Romans, and then Jesus was born. He tells people not to complain about the life. The afterlife will be better if you bear the difficulties. This was popular among people including Jews. So the Christianity was spread quickly. Romans also knew this thing, so they wanted to stop Christianity from spreading.
In 64 AD, a colossal fire broke out at Rome, and burned much of the city. The Romans said the Christians did this; they rounded up and billed Christians. The reasons for most persecution were, the Romans couldn’t bear people who worshipped gods different from their gods. They didn’t allow this happen, so they killed many Christians. Over the next hundred years, Christians were sometimes persecuted. So until the third century the persecutions began to be stopped.
Today’s societies prevent discrimination based upon religious grounds. When we see people wearing religious clothes, we shouldn’t laugh at them or hit them. In addition, we should not take photos of them.
In brief, Christians has their own religion. They had a long history too. They should be respected not persecuted.
