You feel exactly like a Roman Pagan did 1700 years ago
Christianity was the woke movement of Rome
And this is it’s bizarre story
It seized control of the late empires bloated institutions and used them to impose their ideology
This is just like the Woke activists in your government
And just like you – the wholesome rural Roman people did NOT want this 
He gleefully wrote that “the urban centres are turning Christian” and that the “backwards rural pagans” will be forced to comply 
These urban Christians called their native rivals pagans in the same way your snotty urban intellectuals call you “rednecks” in “flyover states”
You find it even in modern French: “paganni” which means “rustic” 
Christianity was a religion of the confused minorities
Roman greed led to huge slave populations in the urban centres
Christianity was their “BLM” movement to tackle “Roman Privilege” 
An expression of their urge for vengeance on mighty Rome
A true “slave revolt” as Nietzsche articulated
For example, Tellurian who I mentioned earlier was a Carthaginian
Like a Hispanic guy denouncing “white privilege” 
Saw Christianity as a bizarre slave superstition that got out of hand
Near the end, it was only the native farmers, high class aristocrats, and the army that were anti-Christian 
He was from Constantines lineage, and he saw Christianity as dangerous nonsense that was subverting Rome
He tried to revive Hellenism, but died in a war out East, and never got to conclude his project 
Many scholars believe they weren’t even treated so bad
“They’re persecuting us” and we’re being “fed to the lions”
Does this whining remind you of anything?
And again… Tellurian was often beating this drum 
The mask came off…
“So much for the tolerant left”
They began to crack down – using their bureaucratic power to ban “paganism” outright
Of course, Rome’s steep decline was because of these pagans hanging on to their evil old ways 
They tore down statues
Anything “Roman” and representative of Roman high culture (which had conquered their ancestors) was attacked
They all sang of the coming Utopia when the kingdom of God arrives on earth 
It was like the Communist Purges or the French Revolution’s reign of terror
Big promises that became nothing more than a mess
19 years after Rome banned the old Gods it was sacked for the first time in 800 years by the Goths 
It’s not some reservoir of “basedness”… it looks like Rome’s woke movement
As Nietzsche called it: the triumph of Judea’s slave worldview over the Roman Life religion of excellence 
But search the facts for yourself
Don’t trust me
Let your imagination take you back…
Try to see that era through the eyes of the people who lived at the time
Not your biases and concerns 
Which Nietzsche called our confrontation with Nihilism
We will clutch for something stable… some sort of meaning… anything to stabilise our emotions in this chaos
This doesn’t mean what we clutch to is real 
Perhaps it’s a chance to throw off things that were too monumental to even confront in recent history
What if Christianity is a shackle we need to unchain 
