On this day, January 3, 250 A.D. ...

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On this day, January 3, 250 A.D. – Emperor Decius (bust pictured) ordered everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods, resulting in widespread persecution of Christians.

Source: "On this day" bottom right quarter, front page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Talk about inviting disaster with intentionally divisive politics. And why spare (((the Jews)))?

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[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Its written clearly on the Wikipedia page you omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decian_persecution#Exemption_of_the_Jews

Exemption of the Jews

Julius Caesar had formulated a policy of allowing Jews to follow their traditional religious practices, a policy which was followed, and extended, by Augustus. This gave Judaism the status of a religio licita (permitted religion) throughout the Empire.[6] Roman authorities respected tradition in religion and the Jews were following the beliefs and practices of their ancestors. It was well understood that Jews would not perform sacrifices to the Roman gods or burn incense before an image of the Emperor. In contrast, the Christians were a new phenomenon, and one that did not seem like a religion to Roman authorities at all; both the earliest extant Roman references to Christianity, Pliny the Younger and Tacitus in his Annals about 116, refer to Christianity as superstitio, excessive and non-traditional religiosity that was socially disruptive.[7] Christians had abandoned the religion of their forefathers, and were seeking to convert others, which seemed dangerous to the Romans; refusal to sacrifice for the Emperor's well-being appeared seditious.[4]

Judaism was a permitted religion. Christianity wasnt.

Go take your Jew hating propaganda elsewhere.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

LOL. I'm hardly a Jew hater.

Though I despise the dogma of Zionism - as well as Wahhabism, NeoCons, all governments, religions, and dogmatic, tribalist, exploitative control systems. I'm also skeptical of the Holocaust narrative. Disliking bad ideas doesn't make me hate individuals nor groups.

I asked a question. You took the bait and clearly bothered to look and read the answer. A tiny mission accomplished. Few others would.

Look deeper and ask why some religions were permitted and some weren't and you find similar things all through time, including today.

But you already know this.

If you want even more interesting stuff, from even further back, consider the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavian_dynasty and how they created Christianity, as covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar's_Messiah . Atwill's Caesar's Messiah documentary available on YouTube, etc covers the premise pretty well.

Then, with those under your belt wonder what changed over a couple centuries. Politics is not new. You see all the pomp and circumstance of today's "leaders" and their divisive battles between the "left" and the "right", and factions within and more. That's always been the case, all the time, for all time.

A lot of people think of the government as one unified thing. You look at America going into World War II and think the government was unified? Hell no. People say FDR knew Pearl Harbour was going to be attacked. Many in the government did. But they weren't on FDR's side. They were adversaries and aligned with Churchill to make that possible.

Though the rules and customs and players change, it's always turmoil all the way up despite the higher ups seeming to have many things in common.

Also, "the Christians were a new phenomenon" - kinda but not really.