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I promise you and I think a lot alike on Julian the apostate. Maybe we simply disagree on what I meant by he didn't want to ban Christianity outright, but from within. IMHO, the items you posted are things I knew and weren't banning Christianity outright (by that I mean that Julian didn't put Christian leaders in prison just for preaching Christianity like was done to them in the pre-Constantinople days).

But things like rebuilding the Temple (as you posted) was a means to destroy Christianity from within (as I posted). The same for Julian trying to weaponize theological differences (again, an attack from within).

IMHO it's much like the left does today with God's church. They'll attaboy church leaders who are "inclusive" to homosexuality. Or they'll promote theistic evolution (regardless of what one believes on the age of the earth, saying God did it by using natural selection promotes a modern version of deism in which He doesn't have an intimate relationship with His creation). Or they'll ban you from teaching at universities if you espouse your Christian beliefs (i.e. can't be a professor of biology if you point to characteristics showing God's design).

Even if the left isn't currently outright banning Christianity. They're certainly undermining it in ways similar to Julian. At least that's my humble opinion.

I promise you and I think a lot alike on Julian the apostate -- but this wasn't a question of opinions - I was just stating the historical facts of what Julian did

I need to think about what you wrote after that - it does sound right. I thought you were projecting our current state backwards and you, instead are projecting the state in 360 AD forwards :)