![]() Persecution simply does not guarantee a healthy or growing Church. And in our day, the Church has been nearly driven out of its ancient homeland of Iraq. And Muslim persecution virtually annihilated the Christain community that once thrived across Central Asia. Christians were tortured and killed at a horrifying rate. ![]() For example, under Diocletian, the emperor a little before Constantine, the Church suffered the worst sustained burst of persecution in the Roman era. This argument is wrong on almost all counts. After all, didn’t the Church father Tertullian tell us that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church? The Church, they argue, was better off as a persecuted minority. They believe he made Christianity the imperial religion, thus leading the Church to compromise with pagan culture, marrying it to state power, and derailing the spread of the Gospel. ![]() Many Christians think that Constantine was perhaps the worst thing to happen to the Church. ![]()
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