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Foxe says that according to Eusebius in about the year of our Lord 205 the crimes and false accusations objected against the Christians included
- sedition and rebellion against the emperor
- sacrilege
- murdering of infants
- incestuous pollution
- eating raw flesh
- libidinous commixture whereof certain indeed, called then Gnostici were infamed (ie defamed)
- It was objected against them for worshipping the head of an ass which whereof it should rise I find no certain cause except it were perhaps by the Jews
- Also worshipping the sun for that peradventure before the sun did rise they convented together singing their morning hymns unto the Lord or else because they prayed toward the east but specially for that they would not with them worship their idolatrous gods and were counted as enemies to all men.
- (Christians were also often accused of cannibalism, misinterpreting what goes on at the Lord's Table
- And they were accused of causing public calamities, being scapegoated for natural disasters, plagues and fires)
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