(September 29, 2022 at 4:02 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(September 19, 2022 at 2:13 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I mean, didn't Constantine have that council where he ordered some guys to figure out who Jesus was?
-ish. He didn't give a fuck who jesus was or what theology that entailed, he just wanted them to stop bickering - because division eradicated the whole point of the roman administrative state assuming christianity.
Pick a god, one god, any god, and end it. That was his ask.
The historic version of christianity is a dispute between two wings of a pagan roman family angling for power...both sides long dead...availed them nothing. They just stuck us with it.
It's disputed what Constantine did or did not actually believe. Even after his conversion to Catholicism, he still, apparently, continued to practice paganism. In my opinion, the evidence is that he did convert to Catholicism and that his conversion was sincere, but, he called the council of Nicaea to deal with Arianism, not really giving a damn what Arianism was or wasn't, but, wanting religious unity in the Empire to achieve political unity. As the head of the Council, he did some arm-twisting to get the handful of Arian bishops to change their minds, which resulted in two Arian bishops refusing to support the Council, along with, of course, Arius himself, all of whom were exiled and excommunicated.
