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For I myself, when I delighted in the teachings of Plato, and heard the Christians slandered, but saw them fearless in the face of death and of all the other things reckoned fearful, considered it impossible that they could be living in vice and love of pleasure. For what lover of pleasure, or intemperate man, or one who regards the eating of human flesh as good, could welcome death so as to be deprived of his good things, instead of trying by every means always to live the present life and to escape the notice of the rulers, let alone to denounce himself as one to be put to death? And the wicked demons have already brought it about that this too should be done by certain wicked men. For having murdered some, they dragged to torture our household servants, or children, or weak women, and by dreadful torments compel them to declare those tales told as myths, which they themselves openly practice; of which, since none of them belongs to us, we are unconcerned, having God the unbegotten and ineffable as witness both of our thoughts and of our deeds. For why did we not also publicly confess these things to be good and demonstrate them to be divine philosophy, saying that we celebrate the mysteries of Kronos in slaying men, and that in being filled with blood, as it is said, we do the very things equal to the idol honored among you—on which not only the blood of irrational animals is sprinkled, but also human blood, the pouring out of the blood of those slain being performed by the most distinguished and noble man among you—and that, becoming imitators of Zeus and the other gods in pederasty and in fearlessly consorting with women, we offer as our defense the writings of Epicurus and the poets? But since we persuade men to flee these teachings and those who did and imitated such things, as also now by these words we have striven, we are warred against in various ways; but we are unconcerned, since we know God, the righteous overseer of all things. Would that even now someone would cry out with a tragic voice, mounting some high tribunal: "Be ashamed, be ashamed, you who attribute to the guiltless the things you openly do, and who clothe these men, in whom none of these things has any part even in the smallest degree, with the things that belong to yourselves and to your gods! Change, become chaste!"