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How Turning Christian Made Constantine An Even Bigger Bastard

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Wednesday, October 4 2006, 18:20:05 (CEST)
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...from Durant

" The triumph of Christianity brought new difficulties. Before his conversion Constantine had placed the religion of the Jews on a footing of legal equality with those of his other subjects. After his conversion the Jews were oppressed with new restrictions and exactions, and Christians were forbidden to associate with them. Constantius banished the rabbis (337) and made the marriage of a Jew with a Christian woman a capital crime. Julian`s brother Gallus taxed the Jews so heavily that many of them sold their children to meet his demands. In 352 they rebelled again, and were again supressed; Sepphoris was razed to the ground, Tiberias and other cities were partly destroyed, thousands of Jews were killed, thousands were enslaved...From these afflictions the Jews were saved for a moment by the accession of Julian (who tried to take the empire back to paganism and was no Christian...though a very decent man). He reduced their taxes, revoked discriminatory laws, lauded Hebrew charity; and acknowledged Yahveh as `great god`...then came Julian`s sudden death;sate funds were withdrawn;the old restrictive laws were re-enacted and made more severe...."

and so on. This monotheism crap was only of benefit to emperors...not to the diverse people on this planet.

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