Freeman on Persecution

Freeman’s colossal misconceptions come out on every page. Under that patient persecution by the Romans, some Christians saw the light and offered sacrifice, but others “resisted to the point of martyrdom.” Not that it mattered much; they were eager to die, since they preferred “their reward in heaven . . . to a life in the misery of the material world.”

I’ve got to stop reading this book.

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