The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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I've Triumphed Over These Pagan Inquo Marks
Christians believed that there was a kind of supernatural power in the statue. But yet, they would throw them in sewers, decapitate them and use bits of temples to build roads. You were humiliating the old gods in every way possible. And it's not the case that every temple had this happened to them. This was kind of terrorism. It was particular acts carefully chosen to convey a message, and did. So, you don't have to destroy every temple to make the pagans afraid of your religion. You just have to destroy a few and the big ones. Then people are afraid exactas many others.
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