(November 4, 2017 at 5:22 am)Wololo Wrote:(November 2, 2017 at 9:13 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: It’s not like religions are political entities whose causes are greatly helped by martyrdom....
So much so that christan churches have gone so far as to invent and propgate fictional stories of martyrdom, for example stories of mass persecution and murder by the Roman empire, most of which are fakes (Diocletian did persecute, but aside from a few isolated cases that's it. More christians were persecuted after Rome was christianised than bbefore).
Do you live in the USA? I do, and I have a very poor sense of what it's like to be persecuted as a Christian, or to know people who are persecuted. Save for a good friend of mine, also Christian, from India, who was personally beaten and threatened for being Christian. I have also heard reports of people who have been in countries such as Romania where there was some pretty serious persecution when communism was really big. ISIS still kills Christians today. So, it happens, and if you are going to make the bold claim that the persecution you are referring to is fake, please provide some evidence.
