More like the Patricians of Rome are you, your feigned hysteria that Christianity is somehow being assailed & persecuted in general by atheistic science (only your label) , liberalism & new age pagan pantheist movements. The fact is that Christians are very much privileged, an ideology in the US that has enjoyed an implicit, unrelenting, and uncritical acceptance .One would have to be a complete idiot to try to push the mythical delusion that Christianity is not dominant here & being persecuted. But this is the dishonesty at the heart of your fiction & drama .
For the same fundamental propganda purposes then & like you or greggy today, the early church writers felt they needed to wallow in graphic descriptions of virgins violated and gored to death by bulls, old men & women suffering horrific tortures to over-fed lions of the Colosseum as early as Nero's reign. No amount of sordid details written mostly centuries later were spared in this myth creation of the early church's descriptions of its martyrs:
The Fantastic details of the sufferings of the Christians - dressed in animal hides and torn apart by dogs, crucified, and used as human torches - fits the pornographic masochistic obsession of the early Church
The only problem is we find so much of this pure eaggerated bleeding heart fiction when examining historical writings , the Jewish historian Josephus says nothing about any "persecution" under NERO though he was in Rome for over a year from the first part of 64AD , the fire happened in July, but fails to mention it at all let alone any persecution of Christians.
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