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That's certainly what Scott seems to think.
Of course, we know how Christians were perceived- altruistic, odd, generally upstanding, welcoming of converts, treat their subordinates well in sometimes baffling ways- and we know how Christians liked to represent themselves and thought their communities should behave. But what we don't really have is anthropological studies of how Christian communities acted among themselves. Like we can tell that Christian men in 200 AD generally treated their wives better than Pagan men did, but not a lot of concrete examples of what that looks like(I suppose the martyrologies are evidence that Christianity forbade or heavily restricted domestic violence, and there are records of the church fathers exhorting Christian husbands to be affectionate with their wives, but we don't actually know what that was like on the ground). We know the pagans thought becoming Christian when you were down on your luck was the sort of thing that made sense to do, but mostly from satires which present it as a natural thing for the down on their luck to do- we don't actually know what Christian charity looked like or how it worked(although we know pawning or selling possessions and giving the money to bishops to hand out to the needy was at least a thing that occasionally happened[and in Roman eyes would be seen as a comprehensible part of religious practice- with the exception that ancient temples would have kept such a gift for themselves], and that free food was a regular handout perhaps used as a recruitment tool). But how Christian charity was administered? Whether there were any measures taken to prevent dependency? Nada(and Roman satirists would have treated any help granted without recompense as being taken advantage of).
Worth noting that some of the New Testament gets fairly granular as to how things like charity was administered and what measures should be taken to avoid dependency, although I am not sure that necessarily sheds much light on what was always happening a century or two later.
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