(July 26, 2018 at 11:59 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 26, 2018 at 9:04 am)Brian37 Wrote: Constantine adapted Christianity for political expedience, regardless of his personal beliefs.
Christians composed a very small minority of the Roman populace at the time. It's hard to see in what sense adopting Christianity would have meaningfully been any kind of political expedient.
For the same reason today in America we have a MINORITY of far right Christians holding the rest of America hostage. He saw something in the tide, not just the religion itself. Personal beliefs aside, it was still tactical.