The Fallacy of Belittling Persecution
As you probably know, on February 15th twenty-one Coptic Christians were martyred by the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya. The gruesome video shows the victims declaring their faith and calling upon the name of Jesus even as they died.
The killing brings to mind the words of Tertullian, the second-century apologist who was also from North Africa, who said "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church."
And that's what the brother of the martyrs Bishoy and Samuel Kamel is counting on. As he told an Arabic Christian channel, "ISIS gave us more than we asked when they didn't edit out the part where they declared their faith and called upon Jesus Christ. ISIS helped us strengthen our faith." Wow. Amen.
