Christianity began as a persecuted religion that ultimately captured the Roman empire only after centuries of hostility towards the Empire, towards Rome, towards the secular state in general.

基督教最初作为被迫害的宗教,最终征服了整个罗马帝国,而在此之前,它经过了数世纪,对帝王对罗马以及,对整个世俗世界的反抗

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The same thing happens in the 1870s, there's a revival of that old time religion, and it's helped by various miracles and that kind of thing, but which I'll talk about in the lecture on religion, which is kind of fun--it's fun to do.

十九世纪七十年代发生了同样的事情,那时候旧时代的宗教复兴了,而它得益于许多神迹之类的,但那是我在宗教讲座上要讨论的东西,那会很有趣的

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We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

在宗教研究中我们喜欢用这两个术语，而不用BC，即“基督前“和，因为AD其实是Anno，Domini的缩写，即“主的年份“

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