[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.

[RedStateRocker]

I didn’t base what I wrote on what you wrote.

My point is that the vast majority of these ‘persecutions’ were because people wouldn’t worship the Emperor, *not* because they professed Jesus.

Just like I don’t even care what someone else believes, but if their faith requires something that (I and many others have been brought up to believe) harms society, or failing to do something that everyone considers an obligation, then who is to blame?

Few were killed for being Christians, many were killed for not worshiping the emperor.

[YogicCowboy]

See 24.

P.S. Thank you for placing Anno Domini before the date.