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be ascribed only to the inclination or policy of the sovereign of Gaul. His liberality restored and enriched the temples of the gods: the medals which issued from his Imperial mint are impressed with the figures and attributes of Jupiter and Apollo, of Mars and Hercules; and his filial piety increased the council of Olympus by the solemn apotheosis of his father Constantius. But the devotion of Constantine was more peculiarly directed to the genius of the Sun, the Apollo of Greek and Roman mythology; and he was pleased to be represented with the symbols of the God of [Sun] Light and Poetry. The unerring shafts of that Deity, the brightness of his eyes, his laurel wreath, immortal beauty, and elegant accomplishments, seem to point him out as the patron of a young hero. The alters of Apollo were crowned with the votive offerings of Constantine; and the credulous multitude were taught to believe that the emperor was permitted to behold with mortal eyes the visible majesty of their tutelary [Sun] Deity, and that either walking or in a vision, he was blessed with the auspicious omens of a long reign. [Promised to him by the Sun God Satan?] The Sun was universally celebrated as the invincible guide and protector of Constantine...”
The People that History Forgot written by Professor and Archaeologist Ernest L. Martin 1993 pages 159 and 161-162 states: “Indeed, there was nothing inferior about these eastern [Pagan Syro-Pheoenician, Hittite, Egyptian, Persian and Babylonian] religions and philosophical beliefs nor the people who brought them to the west. [Rome] They were the very teachings that Constantine and his followers adopted. True, they changed their names and the doctrines which they advocated into names that were derived from the New Testament. In effect, the later emperors retained Pagan idolatrous worship which had come from ancient Babylon and began to call it the religion of Christianity.”
The historian and author Michael Grant gives us insight into the life and times of Constantine in his book Constantine the Great. From The Critics Publisher's Weekly: “Constantine I founded Constantinople on the site of Byzantium and converted the Roman Empire to [Catholic] Christianity, [He made trinity/Catholicism an imperial cult!] yet this first Christian emperor “would hardly be recognized as Christian at all today,” asserts renowned classicist Grant in a compelling reassessment. A ruthless despot who strove to be a world-conqueror like Alexander the Great, Constantine (280?-337) murdered his second wife and his son, assassinated friends and advisers and extended the death penalty to minor crimes. While cultivating a reputation for almsgiving, the emperor crushed common people with oppressive taxes to finance his reckless wars, extravagant pomp and vast, corrupt bureaucracy. The Christian [Sun] *God whom Constantine revered was a god of power who presumably enabled him to destroy foes, and as Grant makes clear, the emperor's belief that he was constantly in touch with God made him difficult and dangerous. Illustrated. History Book Club. (July)”
“Michael Grant goes beyond the bias of literary sources and reveals the private man behind the public persona: the superstitious beliefs underpinning Constantine's hallucinatory visions and dreams...” [A sun god worshiping “hallucinatory” madman and a murderer promoted and enforced the non-Biblical Trinity doctrine across Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe! We see clearly that this man was an egomaniac and was worshiped as a god. He set up large images of himself. Therefore, the only honest
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