Makes it harder for Christians to gain the same "advertising" benefits they did from the circumstances of public martyrdom in OTL. What's the intermediate and long-term affects?
Because the Romans believed in humiliating those who they saw as non conformists like the Christians. The Christians laughed in the face of the Roman system of favors and familial connections, they refused to sacrifice for Roma, so they must be made an example of. Dissapearing someone doesn't do that.Makes it harder for Christians to gain the same "advertising" benefits they did from the circumstances of public martyrdom in OTL. What's the intermediate and long-term affects?