First, my father was an expert researcher in the early church and worked for the University of Jerusalem, Josephus never claimed that Christians took part in 'cannibalistic orgies' His only reference to cannibalism at all is his description of the devastation caused by the destruction of Jerusalem and the slaughter of Jews and Christians that followed when he mentions that some people were so desperate they were taking meat off already dead bodies they found along their route of escape. Hardly a common place occurrence. The other writers are well known bigots toward Christians, and over the past 100 years many scholars, including a British archeologist who 50 years ago found some original manuscripts of Pliny the Younger, have determined that later copiers made the writing more and more outrageous in their attacks against my faith. The writers you mentioned had minimal contact with any Christians or Christian religious ceremonies if any contact at all, and Tacticus made the absurd claim that we drank our own blood at communion, instead of wine. There were certainly problems with the early church, persecutions against non believers in Armenia and Turkey, worshiping of idols according to pagan cult customs that violate Christian beliefs, but one many of the contemporary accounts of depravity dealt with the Gnostics, who have always been looked on as heretics by the other groups for their non-biblical, unchristian, and mystical doctrines. most of these claims of depravity that are credible are no worse then pagan cults like Baccus, and in many cases are known to us because leaders in the Church decried them as unchristian.The Roman Empire required its citizens to venerate the Emperor. The Christians refused to do so. The Empire considered refusing to venerate the Emperor an act of treason. I am not endorsing the Empire position, and I think we're all glad that policies like that are not around any more, but you can't ignore that it was an issue around the 1000's AUC.
Except for Tacitus, Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius...
Granted, there's a fair amount of evidence that some of those texts were interpolated by later copyists who added in more anti-Christian material, but even if some of the original texts were modified, there are still plenty of contemporary accounts of Christian depravity.
Most Christians just don't realize how much their religion has mellowed out over the years. Then again, a lot of Christians think that the accounts of the Christians apologists are more reliable when it comes to understanding early church practices than proper Roman sources, but I suppose that kind of bias is inevitable. Personally, I don't think you could have so many Roman sources issuing the same claims about Christian depravity unless there was some factual basis for it.
Sure we aren't perfect, but neither is anyone else, and while our faith has always had deviants who have strayed from the message and allowed ignorant people to apply their actions to all of us, most of the 'Christian apologists' are simply correcting widespread false beliefs pushed by bigoted pagan 'intellectuals' who have nothing better to do then attack our faith. I would like to say though, that Rabbi Abdul from Mecca is completely loony in his claims about Christian history, and the complete perfection of Christianity as a religion unsullied by flaws.
WE ARE A RELIGION!!!! NOT A CULT!!!!! just because are faith is not very comment outside of central asia, doesn't mean we are not a distinct religion. we are the fifth largest faith in the world after Pagan Pantheism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism. You are a moron, as it has already been said, major philosophers around the world agree that attachment to earthly possessions can have unfortunate consequences, and the so called 'Church of Marx' is only used atheist materialists who try to lump Marxism with the faith that he rejected in his youth, just because it tells us to help our fellow man.Bel spare us
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
This cult is nothing but the politics of envoy shrouded in judaism lite. Courage and entrepreneurship are sins to these people! Let's not forget the damage the Church of Marx had caused over the past 150 odd years (Christian and hypocrite have been synonyms from then on for a reason). As a true Briton, I'm glad we weren't touched by that rabble rousing nonsense.
BTW, there are major groups of Nestorians in Central Asia, Christianity didn't spread to the Mongols per say, but it and Buddhism are the to largest religions in the area.