Through their abstention from much of the community life ​ — the pagan festivals, the public amusements which to Christians were shot through and through with pagan beliefs, practices, and immoralities — ​ they were derided as haters of the human race. ”
इसलिए इंसानियत के दुश्‍मन कहकर उनका तिरस्कार किया गया । ”