Given how the religion spread like wildfire, what did people of the Empire and elsewhere see in it?
Christianity was attractive to the poor because it offered resurrection to an immortal life of equality, rather than a continuation of the same lowly status: "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)
There were also benefits in this life. Christianity established community support or social services for those who joined the church.
Despite various, contingent contradictions arising in Christianity's actual implementation (no doctrine has ideal embodiment in real life), even secular institutions and ideologies of the West eventually tried to mimic the equality and welfare appeal.
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