What Spread Christianity?

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Well.. To be fair look at the lives of the average person in those days. It was eminently harder than life today and few people had education not to mention by the time you lost your baby teeth you were pretty close to middle age if you weren't already dead of old age already.. Chances are the cattle ate a lot better than the average person and disease was common. If you cut your arm open in some terrible accident you didn't just drive to Urgent Care or call the EMTs. There was a very good chance it was going to kill you or at least get your arm lopped off in a not so pleasant method. On the bright side there was some schmuck telling you once your extremely shitty life was over everything was going to be peachy keen. No diseases, no starvation, no getting your arm chopped off and so on. Hey, sounded like a pretty sweet deal. Your extremely shitty life is over and *ding!* ..HEAVEN!  Under the circumstances I'd of bought into that notion.

[Lachish]

It came in at least three or four different shifts. The first from the death of Christ until 300 CE was from the power of its message among the poor and destitute in the Roman Empire, the next phase was when the Romans found out how powerful it could be for their weakening empire, the subsequent phase around 800 CE when Charlemagne was crowned as king of a new Christian empire in response to invasions for another religion, and the new age Christianity we now see starting from the 1960s.