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| The Not-So-Bloody True Story of Early Christian Martyrdom |
February 24, 2017 |
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It’s a story that’s often been told: in the first 300 years of Christianity, the Christian faithful were beheaded, burned at the stake, or thrown to the lions in the Coliseum. But this tale of persecution turns out to be mostly false. It's a myth that's been kept alive to inspire the faithful, and has justified Christian violence from the Crusades through modern times. From March 2013.
Pictured: St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr. According to the Book of Acts, he was stoned to death by an angry mob.
Candida Moss, author of The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom |
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