By the time Constantine died, Christians were only less than 10% of the Roman Empire’s population and were at best a loud minority. They were also divided between a bunch of squabbling sects that disagreed with each other as much as they disagreed with pagans, most of whom are considered heretics by Christians today such as the Arians, Ebionites, and Gnostics (what we call “proto-Orthodoxy” wasn’t even the majority thought amongst early Christians).Christians (much less proto-Orthodox ones) didn’t become a majority until Emperor Theodosius outlawed paganism and explicitly made an effort to eradicate it by shutting down pagan temples, forcibly disbanding pagan priesthoods, and instituting legal penalties for engaging in pagan rituals. Even then, pagan beliefs still remained dominant in rural areas well into the early Middle Ages (where do you think the term “pagan” came from). Christians of course will say shit like “but we preserved pagan texts like the Iliad” while conveniently leaving out that it was the onset of Christianity that ended pagan traditions to begin with. Preserving a couple texts relating to larger traditions that you yourself replaced isn’t a service to paganism, it’s more like putting a bandaid on a stab wound that you yourself inflicted. Imagine if I burnt down your house, but went inside and grabbed the television before it got destroyed and handed it to you. Would you get on your knees and thank me, obviously not. Besides, it means nothing anyways since many texts were intentionally destroyed by Christians such as Varro’s Antiquitates Rerum Humanarum et Divinarum, the Chaldean Oracles, as well as books 7 to 12 of Ovid’s Fasti (only books 1 to 6 survive). Manetho’s Aegyptiaca was also destroyed for containing an alternative account of Exodus that was far more accurate to history than what the biblical account claims…
What Trinitarian Christians did to the Roman Empire is what Jews have been doing to the world today.
https://desuarchive.org/his/search/text/%22of%20the%20Roman%20Empire%E2%80%99s%20population%20and%20were%20at%20best%20a%20loud%20minority%22/I remember this pasta.
>By the time Constantine died, Christians were only less than 10% of the Roman Empire’s population and were at best a loud minority.This keeps being repeated with 0 sources despite all the evidence to the contrary
