Professor Candida Moss [Email |Twitter] has written a book about Christians (published 2013) called The Myth Of Persecution. She's not calling modern day Christophobia (War on Christmas, etc.) a myth. She's not calling the international persecution of Christians by Muslims a myth, either. She's calling the persecutions in the Bible like the stoning to death of St. Stephen (Acts of the Apostles) and the Catholic history of martyrs (The Roman Martyrology) a myth.

I'll present her thesis below, and say that I don't know how much of the Acts and the Martyrology are true of exaggerated, but I do know that Christians are the only group in modern society about whom you can safely write a book called "The Myth Of Persecution".

Furthermore, the allegation is that the early Christians exaggerated their earlier persecutions after they achieved power.