RE: Did Muhammad exist?
February 13, 2018 at 12:46 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 1:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 13, 2018 at 12:22 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: All this aside, do you think Julian was acting out of a sense of virtue? Or do you think he was motivated by power, ambition, etc?
Yes to all three. I don't think, in Julians case, any of them can be separated from the other. He certainly wouldn't have thought so. Christian hegemony was a competitor to his power (in all of the ways familiar to us today, right down to the cynical wisecracks). His ambition for rome could not accept such a division of authority, and he sought to use that authority to reestablish what he saw -as- the virtues of rome.
When I read Julian, I see a virtuous man trying to grapple with what had already become a belligerent religion at a wholly inopportune time...whereas when I read Constantine (for example)...I'm reading him for filth.
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