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The Roman Empire and Human Rights
Sitzer: The early Christians viewed their faith as ultimate and exclusively true which threatened the popular pluralism of the day. He says they were slaughtered in mass, fed to beasts, cut down by gladiators, tortured, even raped and abused. Sitzer: Yet here's the point I'm coming to. The church grew not in spite of martyrdom, but because of it.