RE: Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill - what do people think
August 11, 2019 at 11:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2019 at 11:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Christianity became the property of the Roman state, truly, following the death of Julián apostate in his campaign against the sassanid.
One of his generals, Jovian, was swiftly declared emperor In 363. He brokered a shameful peace with the Persians and reestablished Christianity as a state church. Julián had unsuccessfully attempted to revive pan hellenism in a bid to restore high classical culture against a rising tide of ignorance and superstition.
He was dead within a year, succeeded by Valentinian (the great), who, along with his general Count Theodosius, spent the next nine years putting down a revolt in Africa, as well as pacifying and subjugating Romain Britain after a combined assault by Picts, Scots and Saxons.
He was replaced by his sons in the west and brother in the east. They, in turn, were replaced by Theodosius I, son of Count Theodosius above, in 379. It was Theodosius I who declared Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
This ended the struggle between different proto-Christian sects that had built flavor, rose, and fell with succesive emperors since Constantine I in 306. Throughout the 380’s Theodosius would institute sweeping policies banning pagan religions and removing heterodox believers and officials from the new state Christendom of Rome. During his reign he allowed attacks on pagan temples to proceed without punishment, as well as lynchings if prominent religious adversaries. The pretext of religious purity was immensely useful in pursuing internal enemies when civil war broke out in 383. After consolidating his position by purging the church, and reforming the state cult to be loyal to him and his authorized view of Christian belief; in 393 he banned all public “non-Christian” culture, practices, and customs. Right down to holidays and the Olympic Games. He would be dead by 395.
It is from this point, and only this point, that contemporary western christianity began to take form. At the cusp of 400ad. If we wished to make the case that the romans invented a Jesus ( and they did, the romanized Jesus) we could place that construct, or at least the culmination of that work, no earlier than this. When the myth had been powerfully shaped by the new political realities of a declining empire over the course of a century.
By 476, the western empire would be ruled by a germanic conqueror, Odaicar(sp?), having overthrown Romulus.
One of his generals, Jovian, was swiftly declared emperor In 363. He brokered a shameful peace with the Persians and reestablished Christianity as a state church. Julián had unsuccessfully attempted to revive pan hellenism in a bid to restore high classical culture against a rising tide of ignorance and superstition.
He was dead within a year, succeeded by Valentinian (the great), who, along with his general Count Theodosius, spent the next nine years putting down a revolt in Africa, as well as pacifying and subjugating Romain Britain after a combined assault by Picts, Scots and Saxons.
He was replaced by his sons in the west and brother in the east. They, in turn, were replaced by Theodosius I, son of Count Theodosius above, in 379. It was Theodosius I who declared Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
This ended the struggle between different proto-Christian sects that had built flavor, rose, and fell with succesive emperors since Constantine I in 306. Throughout the 380’s Theodosius would institute sweeping policies banning pagan religions and removing heterodox believers and officials from the new state Christendom of Rome. During his reign he allowed attacks on pagan temples to proceed without punishment, as well as lynchings if prominent religious adversaries. The pretext of religious purity was immensely useful in pursuing internal enemies when civil war broke out in 383. After consolidating his position by purging the church, and reforming the state cult to be loyal to him and his authorized view of Christian belief; in 393 he banned all public “non-Christian” culture, practices, and customs. Right down to holidays and the Olympic Games. He would be dead by 395.
It is from this point, and only this point, that contemporary western christianity began to take form. At the cusp of 400ad. If we wished to make the case that the romans invented a Jesus ( and they did, the romanized Jesus) we could place that construct, or at least the culmination of that work, no earlier than this. When the myth had been powerfully shaped by the new political realities of a declining empire over the course of a century.
By 476, the western empire would be ruled by a germanic conqueror, Odaicar(sp?), having overthrown Romulus.
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