“We Christians neither want nor worship crosses as the Pagans do” Minucius Felix (Latin apologist author, 2nd Century and early 3rd century) “that it was not so much the empire that was brought over to the faith, as the faith that was brought over to the empire; not the Pagans who were converted to Christianity, but Christianity that was converted to Paganism” M . Turretin , Christian advocate, 400AD “It mightily affects me to see how many there were in the earliest times of the Church, who considered it as a capital exploit to lend to heavenly truth the help of their own inventions, in order that the new doctrine might be more readily received by the wise among the Gentiles. These officious lies, they were wont to say, were devised for a good end” Isaac De Casaubon, Classical scholar and philologist (1559 – 1614) “The early Christians were charged with being a sect of sun-worshippers” Emperor Hadrian, Roman Emperor (76AD-138AD)