who created christianity

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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arc.../nicea.htm

The controversy greatly agitated Emperor Constantine, and he sent a letter to Arius and Alexander in an attempt to persuade them to lay aside their differences. He wrote, "This contention has not arisen respecting any important command of the law, nor has any new opinion been introduced with regard to the worship of God; but you both entertain the same sentiments, so that you may join in one communion. It is thought to be not only indecorous, but altogether unlawful, that so numerous a people of God should be governed and directed at your pleasure, while you are thus emulously contending with each other, and quarrelling about small and very trifling matters."

It has been suggested that because Constantine referred to the issue as "trifling" that he did not really understand it.

Or perhaps because he did.

Constantine did play an important role at the Council. Eusebius of Caesarea reports that he played an key part in calming, convincing, and bringing all to agreement on contested points. The account of Eusebius fairly glows in regard to the Emperor, and he is portrayed as a key figure. It is nowhere suggested, however, that he was permitted to vote with the bishops nor that he used any form of force to obtain an outcome.

So Eusebius of Caesarea, the Liar-in-Chief of the early church kissed the emperor's ass. What a surprise. Constantine was a coarse military man interested only in his own personal aggrandizement. He was a murdering thug. Eusebius aside...and it is easy to dismiss him as the chief propagandist of the catholic church...what makes more sense?[/quote] That this vicious politician who did not give a shit about religion but saw it as a way to control the population bothered to "mediate" or that he would revert to form and tell these pious shitheads to get their act together or he'd find someone who would?
I'll go with the latter.