I can't even laugh at this shyt.
All y'all talking about "This isn't real Christianity, blah, blah, blah"...sorry, but Christianity has been a
job since it rose to prominent establishment.
It started as a small Jewish apocalyptic cult in the eastern Mediterranean region. It had some staying power, being that it lasted a few hundred years after Jesus' death due to Apostle Paul and his homies refining it a bit, but at the time of the Diocletian split, there was still only a few million Christians within the Roman Empire which numbered in the hundreds of millions. Constantine made a shrewd move by liberalizing Roman policy toward Christians, because he needed allies and goodwill as a new ruler, and wanted to differentiate himself from his predecessor in the East and archrival, Galerius, who had a brutal reputation.
Constantine's military and political ingenuity eventually led him into ruler of the whole Roman Empire, but he was still fighting with Galerius and Maxentius forces and was determined to unify the empire, and he saw Christianity as a means to do so. He made himself a Christian bishop, reached out to Christians in North Africa and in the Greek East, established the Nicene creed, created the church hierarchy after the Roman Empire structure, unified the empire under Christianity and crushed his enemies and Christianity was on its way.
And he said he did it because he saw a cross in a dream and a vision of a cross in the sky that read "with this sign you will conquer."
Christians been getting
ed by their leaders since 317 A. D.