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Ocupation: Historian

Life: b. March 3, 1928

Birthday: March 3

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All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Topics: Christian, Cities, Numbers, Tied Up

quote more christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow christians than had died ramsay macmullen Quotes

Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

Topics: Christian, Teaching, Devil, Antagonism

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

Topics: Christian, Reading, Writing, Good Exercise

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

source: - Ramsay MacMullen (1999). “Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries”, p.14, Yale University Press

Topics: Christian, Hands, Persecution

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