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Tertullian (ca. 150–222 AD) is the father of Latin-language Christian apologetics, and of Latin Christianity as a whole. Known for being the earliest known Latin writer to use the term “Trinity,” Tertullian left an important legacy for the ancient church in Apologeticus, where he proclaimed freedom of religion as an inalienable human right and that Christians should have a fair trial before they...

and giving encouragement, confer honor on the family which endures it in proportion to the blood shed. (10) Oh, what glory, which is permitted because it is man’s! To it neither a depraved prejudice nor a reckless intention is attributed when it scorns death and every kind of cruelty. In this case it is permissible to suffer for one’s country, one’s empire, or for friendship everything which it is not permissible to suffer for God! (11) Yet, for all those men you mold statues, you put inscriptions
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