[MarkBsnr]

Just a manner of fuelling a fire whose combustable materials are constantly running low.

My reading of it, is that the early Christian martyrs are reasonably well documented. The few chapters that deal with opposition to the Catholics are hysterical and shrill and bereft of much of the specific documentation that went in the early chapters.

They appeal to emotion; not to the intellect. How I would characterize the appeal of the Reformation to the masses; the appeal of the Reformation to the upper class was wealth and power.

[Petronski]

The few chapters that deal with opposition to the Catholics are hysterical and shrill and bereft of much of the specific documentation that went in the early chapters.

Shrill, hysterical, poorly-documented or entirely-undocumented, crafted to propagandize and radicalize rather than inform, untrustworthy, exaggerated, etc. Much like the Protocols in their intent to foment distrust and hate.