[Antoninus]

Rome and Constantinople had nothing to do with the Church or anything Christian.

Another one. Have you read the primary sources? For those of us who live in this corrupt, post-Christian world to ridicule those who lived in Rome and Constantinople in ancient times and the middle ages as not being sufficiently Christian is frankly ludicrous. For a millennium, the world that Constantine initiated ate, drank and slept the teachings of Jesus Christ. They weren't perfect, but they were zealous--more zealous than most so-called Christians in our own time.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

For 1500 years, 300-1800, most people knew nothing about Christ while the popes/patriarchs slaughtered any opposition to their power, venality and corruption. I think I know more history than 99.9% of the people. A lot of the attraction of Islam that made conquest easy in parts of the Byzantine empire was the constant slaughter of Christians by “Christians” over trivial differences because those differences were a threat to wealth and power.