Re: The Early Christians - The State, Society and Martyrs

You [the Jews] chose special men and sent them from Jerusalem throughout 
the world to proclaim that with Christianity a godless sect had arisen and

to bring those accusations against us which now are raised by all those
who 
do not know us.

Justin, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 17.1.

> We too were the same as you. We were blind and callous, sharing your
> ideas in supposing that the Christians worshipped monsters, devoured
> children, and joined in lascivious feasts. At that time we undertook
> the legal defense and protection of individual cases of sacrilege or
> incest or even parricide, but we regarded them [the Christians] as not
> entitled even to a hearing. Yes, sometimes the struggle with our own
> pity made us torture those who confessed with all the more savage
> cruelty. 
> 
> Minucius Felix, Octavius 28.2, 3 (about A.D. 160).
>