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A nifty little PBS essay on the Early Church points out how crucial Christianity’s down-to-earth organizational structure was to its success in the Roman Empire. The author attributes its success to several things: The bewildering array of new gods and cults available to Romans could be radically simplified by converting to Christianity. Conversion, rather than […]