Sentences with phrase «by pagan emperors»
=== @WASP «Combined by a pagan emperor and edited by pope after pope.»
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1) a bronze age book written by sheepherders, combined by a pagan emperor and edited by pope after pope.
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Constantine I, who was the first Christian Roman emperor and who also had his wife, the Empress Fausta, and his eldest son, Crispus, put to death, seized property from pagan temples and by the end of his reign was ordering the pillaging and the tearing down of pagan temples.
Christians in Rome were viewed as a threat to the Emperor (Roman Emperors, by the way, were not atheists, they tended to have Pagan beliefs — recall the Roman gods).
If this is true, it wasn't Christianity that Christianised a pagan festival but a pagan emperor attempting to paganise a Christian festival that predated it by 30 years.