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To: Commander8
Your link doesn't work. But regardless, I'm not interested in the baptist blood trail. I'm interested in the truth about Roman History--something which you don't have.

You have yet to disprove the article-- or my assertions regarding Constantine, or the info put up by Dr. Carroll on the Inquisition.

29 posted on 08/07/2002 5:30:09 PM PDT by JMJ333
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To: Commander8
More from Crocker:

Some have argued that Constantine's legacy is mixed, that his support for Christianity came at the price of severely compromising the church by making its operations part of imperical policy. Without Constantine's defending word, the Catholic church faced the prospect of endless persecution. Without Constantine taking a hand in church affairs, providing common sense, the threat of force, munificent sums, and marvelous basilicas, the arian controversy or any other virtually innumerable heresies might, in combination have fractured the church into non-existance.

Constantine began the creation of a christian empire, furthering Christ's call to the apostles to bring the faith to all the peoples of the world. It was Constantine's great delight that even delegates from outside the empire attended the Nicene Council. The model for Christian society took place under his watch.

Constantine provided the starting point for the divine right of kings as the guardians of the world until the liberal, secular democracy altered the equation by making religious indifference the paramount value....

30 posted on 08/07/2002 5:39:38 PM PDT by JMJ333
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