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This is the first 1,000 characters of 4587 words (18.35 pages) in the essay titled A new and malevolent superstition The first instance of the Roman State taking action against Christians arose in the reign of the Emperor Claudius(41-54 A.D.). The historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius tell us that Claudius had to expel the Jews because they were continually arguing among themselves about a certain Chrestos. Here we have first mention of the response to the Christian message in the community of Rome, comments Karl Baus. The historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (70- ca.140) was a high-ranking official at the imperial courts of Trajan and of Hadrian. He was a scholar and counsellor of the emperors. He justified this and future actions of the State against Christians defining them as a new and malicious superstition ; very harsh words. As a superstitio , Christianity was linked to magia . For the Romans it was the same as the irrational practices which magicians and witches of evil character used to deceive the ignorant populace who had no training in philosophy. Magic was against reason and was common knowledge as opposed to philosophical knowledge. The accusation of magia (witchcraft), as well as that of insanity was a weapon with which the Roman State branded and suppressed new and suspect groups in society, such as Christianity. The word malefica (=bringer of evil) caught the popular and suspicious imagination of the populace which viewed this (and everything new) as intrinsically dangerous. It was therefore the cause of evil and inseparable from plague, flood, famine an... |
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Keywords: persecution of christians, emperor claudius, dio cassius, suetonius, populace, superstition, magia, christianity, etn, philosophical knowledge, harsh words, imperial courts, christian message, common knowledge, gaius, baus, hadrian, social group, trajan, malevolent