The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> Re: Constantine the What?

Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Thursday, September 8 2011, 16:32:13 (UTC)
from 71.107.57.119 - pool-71-107-57-119.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net

Network -

Windows XP -

Internet Explorer
Website: http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand
Website title: Redirect

"At the time he saw his sign from God Constantine was fighting a desperate war to keep the empire intact....not only did he have to keep 100 nations under his imperial yoke, but he was facing civil war against competing emperors. He needed something grand, something with the stamp of heaven on it to bind all these disparate forces together...but not just any old religion would do."

- It seems that in polytheism there is a power sharing between the many gods and godesses, a sort of checks and balances that is absent in monotheism; and, perhaps, this was one of the practical features of this new religion that mirrored the dictatorship the emperor wanted to impose on his subjects and competing foes.

---------------------

- BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

The full topic:

Constantine the What? pancho - Wednesday, September 7 2011, 16:51:09 (UTC)
- Re: Constantine the What? Marcello - 09/08 16:32
  - Re: Constantine the What? pancho - 09/08 17:30

Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-mfe-ipt, application/x-ms-...
Referer: http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf5/rkvsf_core.php?Constantine_the_What-HISa.BGeg.REPLY
Accept-language: en-us
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.3; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR ...
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: www.insideassyria.com
Content-length: 1003
Connection: close
Cache-control: no-cache
Cookie: *hidded*