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Originally Posted by Yrebmi
Where do you get that from?
In 500AD, Christianity was still struggling to survive amongst pagan Romans and Barbarian invasions. More the latter by that time I would think, as Rome was sacked in 410 IIRC.
Me thinks you are just spewing popularist rehtoric.
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Just more generally that suggesting change in religious popular belief back then was more a result of brutality, force and regimes.
Constantine certainly can be thanked for really giving Christianity the help it needed to develop under a feared empire, albeit near its end.