When we look at the “Biblical English’s” face value, such as the KJV/ NIV/ ASB/ ESV, etc.., we are guaranteed to ‘see’ contradictions. The reason for these contradictions is this: the English and American languages carry a 2+ thousand year gap from the original Biblical speakers. That is, intended social transmissions for communication were participated in the day that they were spoken.

I never make a moral judgement in my writings. All terms used such as ‘pagan’, ‘heathen’ ‘non-christian’ are all in their respective usages. Pagan means ‘the other *page* or ‘those who camp on the outskirts of the *peg* or *pegged-off* area. “Heathen” means, ‘those who live on the uncultivated plains; ‘the heath’.

The most widely cited estimates of Christian martyrdom come from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. They calculate a cumulative total of approximately seventy million Christian martyrs from the first century to the present day. Strikingly, more than half of that total — over thirty-five million — occurred in the twentieth century alone (we have not finished per capita the 21st century), largely driven by state-sponsored violence under communist and fascist regimes.