The Circumcellions: The Christian Suicide Cult
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Christianity, like any old religion, has had its share of extremists, and few comes as extreme as their own suicide fighters, the Circumcellions. The Circumcellions roamed Northern Africa, killing people, torturing them, and pillaging, in the name of Christianity, until they were killed. They were bands of Roman Christian radicals in Numidia and nearby regions of North Africa in the early to mid-4 th century. They were considered heretical by the Catholic Church. They condemned poverty and slavery, and advocated cancelling debt and freeing slaves. They started out as a movement to fight oppression. The origin of the term “Circumcellions” is uncertain. It may have been coined as a mockery name by their critics who referred to them as “ circum cellas euntes ”, “they go around larders”. This referred to their habit of moving about among the peasants, living on those they sought to indoctrina...