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>>19090787
The amount and brutality of anti-Christian purges may have been consciously exaggerated by Christians themselves once in power, with following writers inventing ever new ways to torture recently coined ancient saints. You can see it right now in any underdog-like ideology, their narrative does not switch when they stop being underdogs and start being state-endorsed, it gets amplified even further.

This reality distortion reaches new limits, when one can imagine Roman amphitheaters used exclusively for brutal torture of Christians and mortal kombat of gladiators. Except when a Classicists rolls in to inform you those were used same as the stadiums now - for basically sportsball, with gladiators being overglorified wrestlers. Nazi Germany ended barely 75 years ago, with USSR even less so, yet the amount of myths about them is staggering.
And then you have events that happened not 30 years ago, and neither 300, but more like 1700.