“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.” WritingChristianReadingViewsImagineExerciseVery GoodOneselfVariousPoint Of ViewHistorianPaganGood Exercise Author:Ramsay MacMullen
“More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.” HandsChristianDiedFellowsPersecution Book:Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries Source: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
“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.'” ChristianBeliefNumbersCitiesDown AndOpponentsTemplesTiedBurnedAgnosticStubbornTornChristian FaithGazaTied Up Author:Ramsay MacMullen
“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.” WellsChristianTogetherLanguageKnownTeachingAuthorityDevilMeetingsBoundsOfficialsDemonRemarkableServingAgnosticWell KnownFoeQuarrelsInterventionDisagreementAntagonism Author:Ramsay MacMullen
