The Romans understood Judaism, but they did not understand Christianity until it was too late for their Empire. In conclusion, the Romans had lived with Jews far longer than they had lived with Christians in their domain. However well they understood the Jews, they still did not accept them or their religious beliefs, and they were not above using Judaism against Christianity in an attempt to keep their own pagan beliefs intact. They may have thought they understood the Jews and their "different" beliefs, but in reality, they simply used them as another excuse to fight change and new beliefs. Christianity was sweeping the world, and the Romans did not want to accept it, so they...

The Jews suffered, the Christians suffered, and the Roman Empire fell anyway.
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