by - Proponents of political or religious ideologies will sometimes use false flag tactics. This can be done to discredit or implicate rival groups, create the appearance of enemies when none exist, or create the illusion of organized and directed opposition when in truth, the ideology is simply unpopular with society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Persecution
- The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom is a 2013 book by Candida Moss, a professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. Moss's thesis is that the traditional idea of the "Age of Martyrdom", when Christians suffered persecution from the Roman authorities and lived in fear of being thrown to the lions, is largely fictional. There was never sustained, targeted persecution of Christians by Imperial Roman authorities.
Hence the aptness of the term "false flag" [literary] operation undertaken by the political entity of the church organisation sometime after it emerged victorious in its conflict with the heretics after Nicaea.
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- Official persecution of Christians by order of the Roman Emperor lasted for at most twelve years of the first three hundred of the Church's history.
Moss writes there was a only a persecution of Christians in the rule of Diocletian.
Has anyone ever read the story Eusebius wrote concerning how the persecution started in the rule of Diocletian? It is very interesting. The Christians hacked into the comms link between Apollo and the priests of Apollo who worked for Diocletian at that time in history. This disruption in the communications link to the divinity was exceedingly important for the Roman Empire and he therefore made an investigation as to who were the hackers.
It's true. Read it. The entire story of Christian persecution is a myth. Extremely appealing to the emotions of the reader; based on pathos.
- Most of the stories of individual martyrs are pure invention, and even the oldest and most historically accurate stories of martyrs and their sufferings have been altered and re-written by later editors, so that it is impossible to know for sure what any of the martyrs actually thought, did or said.
In a revisionist history of Christian origins, the martyrs were the pagans, who were fleeing the revolutionary centralised monotheistic Christian state in the rule of the military dictator Constantine. After their own religions had been prohibited. After their most ancient and highly revered temples had been destroyed (by Constantine's army) and some of the chief priests publically executed. After torture was applied to pagan magistrates. Later in the rule of Constantius (c.358 CE) "numbers without end" were dragged from Antioch and Alexandria to the very first attested religious inquisition - for torture and execution.
So if it is a numbers racket, the pagans had "numbers without end" of martyrs. The Christian Church organisation have yet to score a single historical instance. They had the jackboots on, and they employed forgery. Their propaganda of the Christian persecutions of earlier centuries is myth - pseudo-historical inventions of "Eusebius" and the later victorious "church industry".
