‘UNHINGED:’ Time Mag Claims Christians Self-Immolated to Protest the Roman Empire Too.
This historical context exposes the absurdity of Time’s claim. In the first place, Christian doctrine on martyrdom developed very early (for obvious reasons), and one of its principles is that one cannot choose martyrdom in this manner. The Lord chooses His martyrs, not through suicide but through perseverance in the faith while being persecuted. These early martyrs were murdered by Diocletian and Nero; the only choice they made was to remain faithful to Christ, and their persecutors put them to death for it. To argue that this was in some sort of “protest” over imperial policy shifts responsibility for their grotesque and barbaric deaths from the murderers to their victims, let alone ignoring the fact that the Christians of the time were doing their best to survive Diocletian.
Of course, this attempt by the media to shift responsibility for grotesque and barbaric deaths from the murderers to the victims has parallels to their coverage of the war Hamas and the Gazans launched on Israel, too.
As one might imagine, Christians on social media are not receiving this revisionist history with much enthusiasm. Without going all Twitchy on readers, I’ll just include a few pointed criticisms that caught my eye:
Wow. Do not compare Christians who were and are given the option of denounce Christ or die as the same as a guy setting himself on fire. They were MURDERED. He committed Suicide. There is a difference. https://t.co/3IwVWCmVc5
— Force of Light Entertainment 🎙 (@ForceofLightEn1) February 27, 2024
Time founder Henry Luce, the son of Christian missionaries, left the building a long time ago.
Related:
Candace is still reading up on what happened on October 7th before offering an opinion on it, but she sure got straight to mourning the death of a commie who supported the side of the decapitating rapists. pic.twitter.com/3KqWgXCW9h
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 27, 2024
And don’t get her started on other uses for bonfires: Candace Owens: Yes, the Nazis Burned Books, but They Were Bad Books.