Abstract
In the paper two assertions by Czech scholars concerning the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire are challenged. First, Radomír Malý's that Pilate's ""What is truth?"" represents well the mentality of ancient society, because of its disbelief in possibility of finding an objective truth.
Christianity supposedly was feared and thereafter persecuted because of maintaining the existence of an objective truth that was uncomfortable to accept. Second, Martin Putna opined that religions happen to persecute others only due to their position in society, thus regardless of their inner nature.
Both the assertions are confronted with the critique of Christianity by the pagan intellectual elite and neither one seems supported. Rather it was rejection of the onliness of the way to an objective truth imposed by Christianity and blindly accepted by Christians, which was felt as inappropriate and which also later made Christianity a persecuting religion.