0 someone who treats a particular group of people cruelly: --
The guilt of the persecutors of these innocent people is equally great and the retribution to be meted out to those persecutors is equally necessary.
Even fewer know how to eliminate the persecutors, since it is only through understanding the causes and their functions that one may discover how to do so.
As a counterpoint to the death of the pagan persecutor, the legend ends with the saints being reverently buried inside a church, where a healing spring miraculously bubbles up.
Fourteen of the participants rated the persecutors as extremely powerful (maximum score of 10).
For example, testing beliefs about the power of the persecutors may lead to a reduction in depression and weaken a core element of the delusional system.
Ironically, these helped provoke a new backlash from the godly right - a group in which denominations which were the targets of earlier persecution sit alongside their erstwhile persecutors.
Forest's stubbornness was a disappointment to his persecutors.
A corollary of this argument is that the orgiastic rites did not in fact occur but were false beliefs, in most cases genuinely held by the persecutors.
