https://lucindajkinsinger.com/trademark-persecutor/ Movement, Color, Sound, Story Sat, 16 May 2020 21:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/trademark-persecutor/#comment-71 Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:17:25 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=283#comment-71 This is so excellent, Miss Luci! We are traveling and I’m reading your posts out loud to Dan. I told him that when I grow up I want to write like you.

]]> https://lucindajkinsinger.com/trademark-persecutor/#comment-66 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:08:45 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=283#comment-66 Just some thoughts on the paradox of ‘Christian’ soldiers. Looked up the ‘original’ that you likely referenced – the one that places them in Armenia. I too found this account in the Pathway reader to be quite intriguing. I should have looked closer at the time frame. However:
1. Were they ‘fighting’ soldiers or ‘peacekeepers’? As in John the Baptist’s advice, to do violence to no man. If they had been conscripted, there was likely no easy exit from the Roman legionnaires – except thro death. Or, if you have read Vanya (about Ivan Moiseyev who was martyred in the Russian army in 1972, leaving a vibrant witness; he did not fight…
2. Were they (directly or indirectly) discovered because they refused to fight or do violence? The account I referenced says that they refused to do sacrifice to the emperor; whether that was before or after they were discovered to be Christians.
3. Certainly, in death they did no violence – and ceased being soldiers.

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