Where do you stand? I hope alone. The early Christians stood alone against Rome and against the world. Because of their different ideas and their firmness of conviction, they were tossed into the arena with hungry lions which tore and ripped their flesh with claw and fang. Their blood, mixed with the dust of the arena, was churned into a sickening red mud. Others were nailed painfully to crosses and were burned alive. Throughout this torture and agony, they stood alone before a heathen empire, crying out for freedom of the individual and sovereignty of the state. Joan of Arc stood alone and ...