[RedStateRocker]

So, in reality, very few people were executed for being Christians, which is not the way they told it in Catholic school growing up :-)

[Antoninus]

So, in reality, very few people were executed for being Christians, which is not the way they told it in Catholic school growing up :-)

Where did you come up with that assumption based on what I wrote? If you read accounts of the three empire-wide persecutions (AD 250, 258 and 303-311), you definitely come away with the impression that many thousands were killed all across the empire.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It depends on whether you think being a Christian inherently excludes the worship of the purported gods of the polis.

If it does --- then yes, they ere executed for being Christians.