RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 10:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2016 at 10:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Julian The Apostate.
The last pagan emperor of the world, a survivor of a politically motivated slaughter of his family, brought up in christian exile, a bookworm turned war hero turned civil servant turned emperor.
Christians would later proudly concoct a narrative that one of their own, a saint no less...had assassinated him. They even went so far as to put the imperial decree of succession-to-christ, more or less, in his mouth as his dying breath...... It's far more likely that he died in battle and with him, imo, any chance for a reprieve from the next 1000 years of christian asshatery on a global scale.
The last pagan emperor of the world, a survivor of a politically motivated slaughter of his family, brought up in christian exile, a bookworm turned war hero turned civil servant turned emperor.
Christians would later proudly concoct a narrative that one of their own, a saint no less...had assassinated him. They even went so far as to put the imperial decree of succession-to-christ, more or less, in his mouth as his dying breath...... It's far more likely that he died in battle and with him, imo, any chance for a reprieve from the next 1000 years of christian asshatery on a global scale.
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