Ancient Romans and Greeks describe the Christos for us (from here and here):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->All over the empire, <b>mobs of Christian monks</b> went about destroying the many Greco-Roman works of art, libraries of antiquity, and pre-Christian temples:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Greek called them "<b>swinish</b> black-cloths", because <b>"they looked like men but lived like pigs".</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Christians</b>, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of agreement in their teaching. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense, and makes <b>perfect little pigs</b> of those it wins over to its side.
-- Celsus, 2nd Century CE<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Wow, that's the opinion of learned philosophers from nearly two millennia ago about what the Christos and their new converts were like back then. Things haven't changed at all today.
[In Hinduism swine are considered divine like all animals. Mahavishnu, for instance, incarnates as the Varaha who saves the entire world.
But of course, that's not the sense in which Celsus and the ancient Greeks used 'pigs' when referring to the Christos.]
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->All over the empire, <b>mobs of Christian monks</b> went about destroying the many Greco-Roman works of art, libraries of antiquity, and pre-Christian temples:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Greek called them "<b>swinish</b> black-cloths", because <b>"they looked like men but lived like pigs".</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Christians</b>, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of agreement in their teaching. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense, and makes <b>perfect little pigs</b> of those it wins over to its side.
-- Celsus, 2nd Century CE<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Wow, that's the opinion of learned philosophers from nearly two millennia ago about what the Christos and their new converts were like back then. Things haven't changed at all today.
[In Hinduism swine are considered divine like all animals. Mahavishnu, for instance, incarnates as the Varaha who saves the entire world.
But of course, that's not the sense in which Celsus and the ancient Greeks used 'pigs' when referring to the Christos.]