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Constantine the Great
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RE: Constantine the Great
Well Constantine did not make Christianity the official state religion of Rome. Constantine was pagan being even Pontifex Maximus and even coins depicted him as the sun god Sol Invictus. He did elevate Christianity but it still didn't flourish until century later. So why did he do it? It had everything an aspiring totalitarian emperor could want. A church that demanded absolute and unquestioning obedience. Also to weaken pagan temples and take their money.
But like I said he was pagan and equated Jesus with the sun god Sol Invictus. That's why Jesus birthday was set on Dec. 25th because Constantine openly conflated Sol Invictus and Christ Jesus and that was the same day as the sun god’s.

Myths by Eusebius

Yes our famous Eusebious that invented many Christian fairy tales including testimonium flavium. Well he also invented that Constantine converted to Christianity in the year 312 by a battlefield vision of the cross and yet you’d never know it from his massive triumphal arch commemorating that battle. It only depicts the usual pagan tropes, and gives thanks for the victory to Sol Invictus in his solar chariot. Also only Eusebius claims that Constantine’s mother Helena went to the Holy Land and found the cross.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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Constantine the Great - by Der/die AtheistIn - July 3, 2017 at 5:18 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 3, 2017 at 5:45 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by Fake Messiah - July 3, 2017 at 7:00 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by Der/die AtheistIn - July 3, 2017 at 8:10 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by Succubus - July 3, 2017 at 9:19 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by vorlon13 - July 3, 2017 at 9:26 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by Der/die AtheistIn - July 3, 2017 at 10:01 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by brewer - July 3, 2017 at 10:17 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by Succubus - July 3, 2017 at 1:01 pm
RE: Constantine the Great - by Succubus - July 3, 2017 at 7:09 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by brewer - July 3, 2017 at 9:38 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by Succubus - July 3, 2017 at 9:39 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by brewer - July 3, 2017 at 9:43 am
RE: Constantine the Great - by Minimalist - July 3, 2017 at 12:07 pm
RE: Constantine the Great - by Minimalist - July 3, 2017 at 2:33 pm

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