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Originally Posted by boxcar
The persecution of the Christian church, never happened.
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Did it happen?
Admittedly they were blamed for the great fire of 64 C.E. However, they did preach a doctrine in which the evil people of the world would burn in hell. Think about it. They had been told that some among them would not see death. It had been 30 years and nothing had happened. It's conceivable that some radical Christians, or group of Christians, actually did set the fire in an attempt to bring this about, ergo, they were a logical scapegoat.
The great fire and the scapegoating of Christians aside, is there any secular record of the Christians being persecuted by Rome to a greater extent than other groups?
