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Reload this Page Pope Benedict XVI, Eusebius, and the proper use of history
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Old 06-18-2007, 09:07 PM   #11
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Will this be the end of Catholic scholarship that secular scholars can rely on?
One Pope can only shoot himself in the foot so many times.

It is not historically impossible that Constantine personally
appointed the very first "christian" pope, in Rome, 312 CE,
just after he had Maxentius' head paraded about the city
on a pike, and sent off to Africa as a stern message.



The 4th Century Invention of Christianity
"A fiction of men composed by wickedness"
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Old 06-18-2007, 11:19 PM   #12
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Christians see meaning in the course of history. So, indeed, did Marxists until recently.
The similarity in belief has been noted.
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