It is to believed because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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