(July 4, 2011 at 10:00 pm)Judas BentHer Wrote: And yet Julian's Paganism was more in keeping with Hellenistic Paganism, even though he was raised in the Christian tradition he stepped away and thus became an apostate. While his uncle, Constantine, professed himself a Christian after a vision of a cross in the sky just before a battle that he claimed was delivered as a sign along with a psychic message that where that symbol preceded his armies he would not suffer defeat, even Constantine remained a Pagan throughout his life. Converting unto Christianity only on his death bed. A bit of Pascal's wager, one would think.
That's the story, anyway. Unfortunately....
Quote:It is admitted on all sides, however, that Constantine's vision
of the cross is probably not historically true. The only
authority from whom the story has been gathered by historians is
Eusebius, who confessedly was prone to edification and was
accused as a "falsifier of history."
http://www.keithhunt.com/Midages5.html
Xtians controlled the books. Another most likely made up story is that of the fucking pope turning back Attila the Hun from Rome in 452. Rome in 452 was no longer the capital of even the Western Empire ( it had been moved to Ravenna in northern Italy decades earlier) and moreover Rome had been thoroughly sacked by the Goths in 410 and must not have looked like a very inviting prize. But these are xtians and not above lying after all.