About 178 AD, a pagan named Celsus wrote a scathing denouncement of Christianity, calling believers of Jesus Christ “the most uneducated and vulgar persons.” For a high-minded Greco-Roman scholar, nothing was more unthinkable than a faith that welcomed the lowest of society.
However, as William Barclay wrote, “Christianity made people who were things into real men and women, more, into sons and daughters of God… It told men that, even if they did not matter to other men, they still mattered intensely to God... Christianity was, and still is, the most uplifting thing in the whole universe.”
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