Blue Mangrove

Christianity delivered hope to a normally pessimistic culture that thought that their destinies were corrected, either to be in the Gods’ favor or to be out of it, with no hope of redemption. Christianity supplied an option by having the much desired possibility of salvation.

Christianity was largely an urban religion and in these urban center’s Christianity grew at a constant pace, the urban locations of cities such as Antioch, were exceptionally condensed by having 117 people per acre. In comparison to modern cities of today this is rather overcrowded. The overcrowding was so extreme, whole entire families were living collectively in single room apartments; this left little personal space. Being that urban center’s were drastically overcrowded as well as that early Greco-Roman cities had low sanitation or sewage, the population would often simply toss their bodily waste out the window of their apartments onto the streets.

Providing there was minimal water as well as poor sanitation and denisty amongst humans and animals, the environment of the Greco-Roman world might have actually resided in filth beyond our imagination.

For further info about present-day Christianity please watch these video clips from a church in Langley.