There was a time in the
Roman Empire when Christians were hunted and slaughtered in throngs. For many it would not have been hard to bow
down to the pagan idols, or even just practice their own religion in secret. But that was the problem with Christianity,
it made men’s hearts burn within them.
They became committed and converted to it so much that they were willing
to die for it. And many were not only
willing but they eagerly sought a martyr’s death. The same was true during the middle ages for
heretics and reformers, even some atheists.
Why? Because that’s what belief
can do to a man. Many feel that by their
death they can really accomplish something.
They can show the world the veracity of the thing they believed. Unfortunately, this is not always the case,
some martyrs’ names have been lost to history; their ideas really were stamped
out by those who persecuted them. This
is perhaps, the single hardest thing to fathom in dealing with Soviet
history. How many millions believed and
died martyrs for their belief-Communism?
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