However, at some point he decided these teachings were wrong. He wanted to sever Christianity from Judaism as much as possible. He lived through one of the last serious uprisings of apocalyptic Jews against Rome. That rebellion was put down with great ferocity by the empire. Since many Romans thought that Christianity was a sect of Judaism—which it had clearly been in the years immediately following the death of Christ—many Christians had been killed along with the Jews. Marcion may have assumed