In the first century of Rome, Christians initially became “a group of hate because of their outrageous practices.” (Doc 2) Christians were rumored as cannibals due to one of their practices of drinking wine, which was construed as eating bodies and drinking blood. Moreover, their act of referring each other as “sister” and “brother” sprang the belief that Christians committed incest as well. As an example of the inimical attitude of the Roman Empire towards the religion, Emperor Nero sentenced the most fearful punishments upon the popularly, which was the first persecution of Christians in the Empire after the Great Fire of Rome. In accordance to the Roman Historian Tacitus, “their executions were made into a sport in that they were covered
