Of course it’s just ‘pretend’ to act as if the most spiteful among the elect (in their own eyes at least) were concerned about truth. I’m developing the theory - well, conjecture, that they really are proto Nietzchians (no, I can’t spell that) who are really focussed on conquest.
I think to be reckoned a martyr one has to die because your killer hated your being an Xtian. Am I right?
I think you are definitely onto something!