For the Romans nascent Christianity was not at all a new religion. It was ‘antireligion’ This view was well founded. What the first Christian generations were putting on trial was not just the imperial religion, as is often said, but every religion in the known world.
—Jaques Ellul, The Subversion of Christianity, (Grand Rapids, MI: 1986) 55. Quoted in Frost and Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come, 71.
