The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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The Romans Persecuted the Christians
There were martyrs the romans, right? Nobody's ever said they were nicethe. They could execute with the best of them. And in the case of the christians, they occasionally did. But they did it much less than the later, later numbers of martyrs would think. The vast majority of those stories had very little basis in historical reality. Jesuit priest found that lots of martyrs had two dates. Lots of martyrs couldn't possibly have been killed by the emperor. There was a book called the myth of martyr, and it wasn't a a total myththa.
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