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Within Reason

#123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome?

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Candida Moss is a historian of Christianity and author of The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.8

in conversation with my friend Dr. John Nelson, on philosophy,

0:39.3

God, religion, consciousness, whatever you want, really. There will be an extensive Q&A.

0:44.3

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0:48.3

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0:58.2

I'm sure we'll do more in the future if this goes well, but for now at least, it's one night

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only.

1:03.4

So get your tickets when you can.

1:04.7

All the links you need are in the description to this episode.

1:07.4

What is a martyr?

1:09.2

Yeah, that's actually a really great question and more complicated

1:13.8

than you would think. A martyr generally is someone who dies for their religious beliefs,

1:18.5

or maybe if you want to broaden it out, say their political beliefs, maybe their ideological beliefs

1:23.8

or principles. But in practice, if you go look at the history of Christianity, there are

1:29.5

people who are acclaimed as martyrs who didn't die for being Christian, who are sort of more like

1:36.2

murder victims, you might say. There are people who didn't even die at all who are called martyrs,

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