...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.'
'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.
Stichwörter: ideals beliefs snow martyrdom orhan-pamuk dying-for-your-beliefs
If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.
Richard RohrStichwörter: self-sacrifice ego self-improvement initiative martyrdom
The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic circles, if not beyond. Christians under the Roman Empire were neither constantly persecuted nor martyred in huge numbers for their faith. They were prosecuted from time to time for alleged sedition, holding illegal meetings or refusing to sacrifice to the emperor. They were, like other convicts, sometimes tortured and executed in horrible ways. They seem to have been regarded by many Romans with distaste as a particularly silly superstition. But Christian stories of thousands of individual and mass martyrdoms over centuries have at best a limited basis in historical fact, and in many cases are sheer fiction.
Teresa MorganStichwörter: history fiction martyr superstition roman-empire rome martyrdom orthodox academic christian-martyrs christianity-in-rome
I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
Evelyn WaughStichwörter: blessings martyrdom self-denial aesthetism
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