How to stop Christianity:

Why would I write such a thing, being a believer myself? Well, the premise is that it can be stopped. This is the challenge. Governments the world over have certainly been trying! Christianity is a very counter-intuitive thing. Trying to stop it (a fool's errand many of Satan's best have been sent on) seems to require doing the exact opposite of what one might think.So let's take what we know of Christianity, and look at why it grew in the first place, and plan a strategy...

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Reasons for Christianity’s Growth

Since Christians were increasingly persecuted by the state, and ostracized by their
pagan neighbors for not worshiping the gods, it is difficult to understand how the religion
became dominant in the Roman Empire. There are a number of factors to account for the
growing popularity of Christianity in the Roman Empire, though it is hard to tell which factors were the most important.

First, of course, is genuine faith and conviction. Many seem to have been genuinely attracted to Christianity’s message of salvation, forgiveness, and eternal life.

At the same time, the era of the early church, especially the third century, was a time
of chaos and upheaval. The same events that led some to blame Christianity for disaster
may have encouraged others to accept Christianity. As plague and barbarian invasions
made life short and uncertain, the promises of Christianity may have seemed particularly
appealing. In addition, Christians seem to have taken better care of the sick, especially
plague victims, whom others avoided out of concern for their own health.

This altruism may have encouraged converts, especially among those who were successfully healed. Christians also showed great generosity to the poor, who were largely overlooked by the Roman state. Many of the poor probably became very loyal to Christianity because of the support they received from Christians.

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Indeed, the Christian message of faith, charity, and equality before God likely
appealed to the dispossessed in Roman society. The second-century pagan writer Celsus
criticized Christianity for being a religion of women, slaves, and children. Women, in
particular, were given status in the early church that they did not usually enjoy in ancient
society, and in many regards they were treated as equals of men. Women could serve as
deaconesses, and Christianity seems to have been particularly popular among women.
Since women tended to do the majority of the child rearing in ancient households, the
popularity of Christianity among women may have led to it being passed on to future
generations.

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Another important factor in the spread of Christianity may have been the persecutions
themselves. Christians often made spectacles of their unwillingness to worship the gods in
public trials, and used these events to voice Christian doctrine. When they were sentenced
to be executed, the Christians faced their deaths with fearless resolve, which may have
provided an example to the populace of the power of the faith and the conviction of its
adherents.

One of the most famous accounts of martyrdom is that of Perpetua, who was killed inthe late second century. She was a young Roman noblewomen and nursing mother who wrote down an account of her arrest and imprisonment, which describes her father’s visits to the prison and his pleas for her to renounce her faith so as to be spared, her dreams of
battling the devil in the amphitheatre and winning a crown from God, and a vision of her deceased brother in heaven. A final section, written by someone else, records how Perpetua and her slave Felicity, who had also recently given birth, were thrown to the beasts, survived, and ultimately killed by the sword. Perpetua supposedly helped guide the trembling hand of the executioner to her own neck. This vivid display of her contempt for death and her expectation of eternal reward would not only have affected those watching at the amphitheatre—it was also spread in written form for potential converts to read and to become inspired.

So, based on the reasons why it grew, here's the bullet-point summary of how you might make it "ungrow":

• Offer the poor, slaves, and women a truly transcendent form of equality (don't have it? You may have to lie. google Communism/Socialism)
• Lay hands on the sick and heal them without medicine.
• Live an absolutely perfect life, lay that life down for the world, then raise yourself from the grave.
• Stop persecuting Christians! Seriously. Every time Christians are persecuted, their numbers grow.
• Of course, there is one alternative to killing them that is very counter-intuitive: JOIN THEM! and maybe, just maybe, you and the world you live in will be the better for it.