Claims / C-GHANPEQYYX
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A story beats its rival by giving the majority a meaningful part, not by force: Rome's efforts to erase Christianity fed it, because the pagan story had left most people without meaning.
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It's not with physical weapons that one narrative beats another. It's with meaning-making prowess.
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For them, by the start of the Common Era, the pagan narrative described a world without meaning.
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The very steps the Roman state took to erase Christianity instead fueled its growth.
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The state could launch horrific stories but could not control what people heard when those stories reached them.
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