Knowing the biblical history associated with Jesus (I.e. Pontius Pilate crucifying him to appease the Jews), how did Roman Catholicism end up becoming the dominant religion in the Roman world? It seem like they’d want to distance themselves from that, sort of like how it would be kind of awkward for Jews to accept Jesus as the messiah, ya know?
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At first, Christianity was a tiny sect inside Judaism. Over time they started de-emphasizing the whole “Rome is the enemy” in favor of “the Jews killed Jesus”. It helped that the Jews started several uprisings against the Roman empire (that they lost badly) making them “bad guys” in the eyes of the Romans. The destruction of Jerusalem etc. by the Romans led to a crisis in Judaism, and for a minority of Jews the answer was that the messiah wasn’t actually a “king of the Jews” who would create heaven on earth, but actually a spirtual leader who ushers in the end times by being killed in a sort of complicated religious sacrifice. Which sort of echoed the destruction of Jerusalem.
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