Why were Christians so dedicated to the destruction of polytheism?

Funnily enough, Plato's Republic lays out a lot of good reasons for why they did that stuff.

Why did polytheists throw christians to the lions?

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their master plan was to reject 'the world' and find salvation

the fun part is they actualy believed in the gods, they just refused to worship them as gods, they called them 'powers' and 'rulers' and so on, but it was a generaly accepted thing that theres these things up in 'the heavens' and they 'govern' shit

so what the christians did was a big fuck you to the whole cosmogonic setup, it started out almost like somekind of spiritual anarchism, yes they know jupiter is up there he just has no authority over them, their god is greater and jupiter is a demon any way so fuck you

same thing with how they dealt with politeism as they became powerfull, they didnt smash statues and idols and build churches on top of ancient temples cause they were considered 'false', but cause they believed these things and places had actual powers and that realy irked people

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Early christians were considered highly suspect because of their refusal to participate in public rituals and worship of the emperor. Jews had similar peculiarities, but they could justify them by saying that it was due to the unique nature of their ancient religion, which long predated Caesar.

The Christians however admitted that their religion was founded in the time of Pilate. In the Roman view new religion was an oxymoron, only ancient things could be called a religion, so that meant Christianity was a mere superstition and a potentially seditious one at that.

After the great fire of 64AD Nero was the first to feed christians to lions. He blamed the fire on them, but it was really an attempt to deflect criticism at his failure to prevent the disaster, and then his seizing of the razed land to build the golden palace for himself. The cost of which was completely unprecedented, and frankly bordered on the obscene.

However this crackdown on christians rather missed the mark, and only managed to garner sympathy for them.