(January 28, 2014 at 5:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:I just can't understand how it became one of the largest religions in the world?
Meet Constantine.
Sleazebag politician and murdering thug. He made two serious mistakes.
One was demolishing the Roman military machine which had kept the empire for 3 centuries and the other was legitimizing a bunch of nutty old fucks with a silly superstition and thinking he could use them to "unify" the empire.
It appears that christianity already had grown earlier than that:
"The imperial support that Constantine gave to Christianity had a great impact. Obviously Constantine legalized Christianity in all areas of his empire. In the eastern half of the empire, a stronger population of Christians always had existed."
Why?