The 'Do What Thou Wilt' culture of freedom is an illusion. Christians were persecuted by the Romans because they recognised an authority higher than Caesar. The latter tolerated the worship of many gods, practices and forms of expression, especially sexual hijinx, in exchange for loyalty to Rome. Rome offered bread and circuses, libido dominandi, lower forms of freedom, to appease the rabble while keeping a tight political control on higher freedoms, such as liberty.
Christians were gadflies. Their alien Jewish god brooked no exceptions to his prescribed morality, and they sought to convert others to their way of thinking. Though mostly obedient to Roman law, they were subverters of Roman authority and rule. Their ethos of elevating the slave while simultaneously demoting the owner, struck at the very heart of the natural hierarchy of man observed by Roman law and ethics.
What we have is a clash of ideas of what it means to be free. Rome offered stability and civilisation in exchange for loyalty to the Emperor, which it imposed and maintained by force, both carrot and stick. Christian (or should I say, Jewish) revolutionaries, sought to undermine that relationship to its subjects, claiming no God but their God could rule them. Their God was a respecter of no persons, he loved only his Chosen People. These people refused to assimilate and live peacefully among others, all of whom their God said were unclean; and even some of them he had ordered to be massacred. Living with such infidels under the umbrella of Roman rule was intolerable to a member of the Chosen.
And so a myth was created, a propaganda war, utilising images of dying and rising gods already existent within Roman and Greek mythology. Jews created the myth of Christ and sold it to other Jews, proclaiming the Kingdom of God to be at hand. Freedom from the Romans was coming. But they lacked numbers; it wasn't enough.
Enter the figure of Paul, expressed with great rhetorical and psychological panache as an early oppressor of those of the new faith, become their greatest advocate. He specifically takes the role as the apostle to the gentiles, opening up the Jewish god to non-Jews. The goal was to subvert the Roman Empire because the Jews could not tolerate living among people who worshipped other gods; nor, especially could they tolerate being ruled by infidels.
And so 'Paul' brought this message of revolution and liberation to the gentiles. Revolution that was small, for it lacked might; a liberation grounded in passive aggressive resistance; of resentment toward the strong masquerading as humility.
Of course, not all Jews were on board with this narrative effort. The Sanhedrin and Jewish elders had made arrangements with Rome. They were satisfied with the status quo, ruling over their own people while swearing fealty also to Rome. And so the myth of Christ had to account for this in the trial before Pilate, and insistence by the jewish elders he be crucified. The Sanhedrin were the bow-tie wearing conservatives claiming to resist the deep state, but clucking disapprovingly at the reactionary red-pilled jews for trying to take matters into their own hands. And so, they became the chief 'bad guys' in the based bundle of lies that was sold to jew and gentile alike.
It explains the resistance to this day by Jews to the Christian claim that their Messiah has come.
It must be remembered that Christianity is a radical Jewish movement that splintered off from the status quo rabbis, who actively sought to bring about revolution by concocting a syncretic myth that circulated among the slave classes, both jew and non-jew.
Nietzsche was right when he wrote, "What we must remember when we look at this issue of Christianity, is that we are dealing with Jews, from top to bottom."
Another faction of militant Jews engaged in open revolt. The Romans responded by destroying the Jewish temple in AD70. Yet another reason for a propaganda war.
From here, we see the birth of the blood feud animas that exists to this day between Jews and Christians. Christianity was a jewish movement, but because it enlisted gentiles to their cause, a special hatred toward the Roman Catholic Church was birthed by the destruction of the Jewish temple, which carried forth to and beyond the establishment of Christianity as the official religion of Rome.
The early history of Christianity is a case of jewish in-fighting over how to defeat Rome. Jewish militants tried force, but were defeated in AD70. Instead, it was the Jewish 'Christian' strategy that eventually won via propaganda against the Roman ethos; through moral subversion of Roman culture with the Christian parasite - the supposed 'equality of man' - casting scorn upon the heroic ideals of pagan imperialism, while raising up the faux humility of resentment filled holy men.
Ironically, just like today, the appeal to 'equality' caught on among the liberal elites within Rome. Those wealthy elites separated from the rabble but possessed by an aryan sense of noblesse oblige toward the lower classes. Women were the first converts, by a wide margin, and this is even acknowledged by the presence of Mary and other women being the first witnesses to Christ's resurrection. Women's testimony was considered useless in Jewish courts, making it obvious that the Gospels are propaganda designed to, amongst other things, appeal to feminine Gentile hearts.
Of course, once a snowball starts rolling it keeps going. What began as a splinter Jewish plot to subvert Rome became more than any one could handle. Over time, as more and more gentiles joined the revolutionary movement, the original 'jewishness' of comic book Jesus and his sidekick apostles took a backseat to the jewishness of the naughty elders. The late-dated John's gospel, clearly aimed at Gentiles, declared jews who opposed him to be children of their father the devil. And so this jewish/gentile hybrid religion gradually made their fellow jews eternal enemies of men and God alike, as the result of it becoming more and more a gentile effort, who now worshipped the Jewish god to the exclusion of the 'former' Chosen People.
The obvious parallels in the Gospels to Roman gods and Homeric myths demonstrates that Christianity had limited appeal to jews, who seemed to smell a rat early on, and so was designed to reel in Gentiles attracted by promises of heavenly rewards. As more and more Gentile converts became the early Church fathers developing doctrine, the animus between Christians and Jews was cemented. When Christianity eventually became the official religion of Rome under Constantine, it was a great Jewish victory, as Yahweh had defeated the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods. However, the greater mass of jews remained outside the new Church of Rome, both implacably opposed to it and persecuted by it; but also protected from harm by it, as immortalised in the catholic dogma, Sicut Judaeis non.
Some make the grandiose claim that the entire Christian edifice is one big Jewish conspiracy, right up to the present day. And in some sense it is. Those who dedicate time to understanding the relationship between the surface antagonism realise that Christianity owes its existence to the Jewish myth of Christ, and know full well that the Roman Church is both persecutor and guardian of the Jews due to that symbiotic relationship.
What, then, was the Reformation? As the Roman Church developed and spread out across gentile Europe, it took on pagan trappings that made it easier to convert others to the Faith. Eventually that decadence led to a 'cleansing' by Judaising gentiles who sought to return the Faith to something as closely resembling its Old Testament Jewish roots as possible - hence the reversion to a Bible-alone reformed version of Christianity - a move approved of and financed by Jews at long war with Roman Catholicism. Why at war? A gentile-ized yahwism had defeated the Caesars but the Roman Church, though somewhat paganised through multi territorial expansion, retained the intolerant monotheism of its jewish patron, Yahweh.
And so the last 2000 years more or less, has seen Jewish led and financed revolutions against the power of the Roman Catholic Church. What did Rome learn from Jerusalem? It already knew how to impose universal political rule through conquest, but then it learned from the Old Testament god to be religiously intolerant of all other faiths and people groups in favour of the Jewish tribal deity. Hence, why many think (and not without reason) that despite the appearance of antisemitism, that Christianity is simply controlled opposition, ruled from the shadows by Jewish financiers. Current events certainly support that view.
I have no doubt that Jews who have fought against the Catholic faith over the centuries, whether as the creators of freemasonry and other secret societies, financing revolution and subversive efforts to undermine catholic culture, did so believing themselves to be heroes. All in the name of freedom and liberty for all. Not to mention tidy profits along the way, holding the Christians to jewish standards of behaviour no longer sanctioned among jews themselves, thanks to the replacement of the Torah with the Talmud. The irony of course is that they are still fighting against Roman rule, but this time with the patronage of their own god against them...at least until Vatican II, when the charge of deicide of God was finally lifted, declaring the Jews victorious over Rome and once more in control of their volcanic tribal god.
The truth is that the intolerant aspect of Christianity is its patron, the jewish tribal deity, Yahweh, who commands his people that they shall have no other gods before him. Yahweh demands the genocide of nonbelievers, declaring them wicked and ripe for slaughter. Jesus and his father, Yahweh, are one, according to the New Testament. Christianity is the Jewish god's megalomania directed at the world, and somewhat unintentionally, back at themselves. It can truly be said, as jewish writer Marcus Eli Ravage boasted in print, that the Jews conquered the West by destroying all the pagan gods and cultures and getting Europe to worship their God. Some have argued, persuasively, that were it not for Rome adopting Yahweh as their god, the Jews would have been wiped out or faded from history long ago. Instead, they remain figures of towering influence and subversive reputation, one that has served them well for millennia.