>Advocated for a reunion of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.>Also simultaneously rejected Christianity and advocated for a restoration of Greco-Roman paganism.Legitimacy how did he reconcile these two positions? I know he only supported a reunion of the churches for strategic reasons so the Byzantines could secure support against the Ottomans, but regardless how do you reconcile that with wanting to revive paganism?
>>18410210>unify the churches, thus making people less opposed to the idea of religious syncretism while fending off islamic advances>then "unify" Christianity and Paganism, slowly morphing into just Paganism
>>18410210He was like Ye he wanted to unite everyone against Jews also Greeks are niggers
He was buddies with Medici and Medicis became the popes, he could have had central power over the churches.
>>18410210WHAT HE SAID:>>18410295PLATO II WANTED A «UNIVERSAL PAGAN CULT»; HIS PLAN WAS BASICALLY THE SAME AS THE CURRENT GLOBALISTIC ONE OF ECUMENISM AND «RELIGIOUS COEXISTENCE»: AN ANTICHRISTIAN GLOBAL PSEUDORELIGION.
>>18410295>then "unify" Christianity and Paganism, slowly morphing into just PaganismHow would he achieve this though?
>byzantine empire collapses to islamic empires>Maybe it's christianity's fault?
>>18410210It's contentious what he precisely believed about paganism. His views might have been more sceptical than his opponents made out, with the olympian gods representing rational forces put in place by God. In practical terms, there's not reason he couldn't be sceptical about Christianity while seeing the practical benefit of getting assistance from western Europe in return for unifying the churches.
>>18410210>advocated for a restoration of Greco-Roman paganism.[citation needed]
>>18411195By highlighting the similarities between concepts, beings and traditional practices between Chrisitanity and Greco-Roman Paganism (of which there are quite a few), bearing in mind that most of the populace were simple people, not priests/monks/scripture scholars.
