Daniel, it is convenient to call everyone else’s interpretation “synthetic”. My suggestion isn’t synthetic at all but true to the best exegesis that I’ve found.

Also, I do mean “just society” when I mention social justice (see my reply to Andrew above). You should not let social justice become reduced to economics. It involves every aspect of society and human rights.

If it had only been about beliefs then Christianity would not have been a problem for the Romans. These people lived in a pluralistic world and the Romans never attempted to remove the religions of the people they conquered. They simply added the additional allegiance to Caesar. It was the changes in social policy that Christians wanted which got them killed. Romans would not have cared about the deification of Jesus. They did care when the Christian language was directly attacking and mocking the language used for Caesar in Roman imperial theology (son of god, lord, savior of the world, etc).