Nah, it's the most hardcore of masochists! Jesus was like, "Yeah I know Caesar is going to torture the hell out of me, but he can only torture my body. He can't ever turn my spirit." He wasn't even like the Ikkou Ikki. They think the spirit doesn't get tortured, you just reincarnate. Caesar was the Roman military leader. He banned the Christians because they were too defiant and spreading their religion against his lands' other gods. They weren't even anti-taxes. They were total weirdos. They were like "Nah, production is fine. Just make sure you help the starving. It's no one's fault for being born blind or deaf, it wasn't a past life crime or their parents. If you're really strong, you can go right into the leper camps and help them! But you have be the strongest of the strong. And then it doesn't matter who whips you or anything!" Supreme masochists.

They brought down the Roman Empire, probably the strongest human civilization ever up to my point, just by refusing to bow. Literally, they said they only bend the knee to God. It was a huge deal in Japan, because our kneeling stance is the position you take in court. And when they first accidentally arrived, they refused to kneel, just kept standing.