Just maybe....if the water she got doused with was boiling, poisonous, full of raw sewage or contained hungry piranhas...then I might consider the term "persecution" as accurate. But compared to what the Apostles endured...nah ah, sorry, not even close.
Thanks for that posting by the way. How anyone can deny that those people were real believers of what they knew was truth is beyond me. A person may die for a lie, but nobody will die for something they KNOW is a lie.
How come some can still smile and chuckle within the cult?
I don't get that.