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

I am concerned to demonstrate from those things which are considered 
honorable among you that our morals are pure, but yours are mad in many 
respects. How is it that you are not ashamed to slander the good name of 
our women – you who have such a large number of vile and useless
poetesses, 
wanton women, and worthless men? Who can endure it any longer that even 
fratricide is honored among you? Be ashamed, you who are known to be 
disciples of women yourselves, that you scoff at the women who join us as 
well as at the church who stands by them!

Tatian, Address to the Greeks, ch. 33–34.

Megan R. wrote:

> It becomes evident that the entire crime with which they charge us
> does not consist in any wicked acts, but in the bearing of a name. The
> issue is not the name of a crime, but the crime of bearing a name.
> Again and again it is the name that must be punished by the sword, the
> gallows, the cross, or the wild beasts.
> 
> Tertullian, To the Heathen I.3.
>