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You wrote:

"The Council of Nicea was summoned, and presided over, by the Emperor Constantine."

Irrelevant. That is not proof, nor have you documented it, of a pagan intrusion into Christianity.

“Constantine, Pontifex Maximus of the Roman state religion.”

Again, irrelevant. Constantine was emperor. All emperors were in charge of the state religion in pagan times. That is not proof, nor have you documented it, of a pagan intrusion into Christianity.

“He called all the bishops of the eastern and western churches to attend.”

Again, irrelevant. A Christian emperor, and in belief Constantine made it clear he was Christian at that time, had the right to call together any assemblage of citizens he wanted. That is not proof, nor have you documented it, of a pagan intrusion into Christianity.

“The bishop of Rome was invited to attend but he chose not to attend.”

He did not have to attend. He sent delegates. That is not proof, nor have you documented it, of a pagan intrusion into Christianity.

“One of the titles of the Roman Emperor was Pontifix Maximus,
a title given to the Roman Emperor by the king of Ephesus
who had inherited the title from Babylon “

Wrong. It is an exclusively Roman title and some from Rome alone. There was a PM before Ephesus was a kingdom! Read Françoise Van Haeperen, Le collège pontifical (3ème s. a. C. - 4ème s. p. C.) in series Études de Philologie, d'Archéologie et d'Histoire Anciennes, no. 39.) and you’ll avoid making this “Hislopian” mistake. And in any case, that is not proof, nor have you documented it, of a pagan intrusion into Christianity.

“This title goes all the way back to Babylon and the beginnings of the mother-child
cult under Nimrod of Genesis 10 and his wife Sumerimus. Later,
Julius Caesar was elected Pontifex Maximus and when he became Emperor,
he became the supreme civil and religious ruler and head of Rome
politically and religiously with all the power and functions of the Babylonian pontiff. “

Uh, Hislop was wrong. You do realize that don’t you? You see, those of us who actually are Church Historians know that to be true. Even Ralph Woodrow, a former Hislop adherent figured that out. And no information about Caesar is proof, nor have you documented it, of a pagan intrusion into Christianity.

Look, when you actually want to talk about REAL Church history and not Hislop let me know. No reputable Church historian alive today takes Hislop seriously. There’s a reason why. He was wrong.