RELIGIONS
CHRISTIANITY
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The executions dissuaded people from converting.
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Few people took notice and the martyrs’ deaths had no real impact.
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The death of the martyrs inspired others with their faith.
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Christians renounced their religion to become polytheists.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beheading, stoning, crucifixion, burning at the stake: In the annals of Roman Catholic saints, those methods of martyrdom are rather horrifically commonplace.
Detailed explanation-2: -By approving Christianity, the Roman state directly undermined its religious traditions. Finally, by this time, Romans considered their emperor a god. But the Christian belief in one god-who was not the emperor-weakened the authority and credibility of the emperor.
Detailed explanation-3: -St. Stephen, (died 36 ce, Jerusalem; feast day December 26), Christian deacon in Jerusalem and the first Christian martyr, whose apology before the Sanhedrin (Acts of the Apostles 7) points to a distinct strand of belief in early Christianity.