mountainman

Has your grandmother much to say
about the thug Constantine, Red Dave?

youngalexander

Since derailments seem to be in order here, 'ere's another.

Whilst reading Robert Price's "Jesus is Dead", I came across the following pg106:

There is a similar Gordian Knot of gross anachronism when it comes to the Emperor Constantine, whom Knight and Lomas pretty much reduce to the level of a clever Mafia thug.

Just curious Pete. Have you been reading "The Hiram Key" by these two worthies, or is it a case of parallel evolution?

Incidently, Price goes on to recommend T.G. Elliott's "The Christianity of Constantine the Great" to show that C was born & raised a Christian.

mountainman

No, I have not yet that book by those authors, but
I have read their book entitled "Uriel's Machine" which
I can recommend for a light-hearted read. They claim
the flood occured in 7640 BCE by tsunamis set up from
a multi-part comet impact, and point to the layer of
sand across the british isles, and the salt basins of
the US and Australia, as sourced from that epoch.


I wont hold it against him. Mainstream is all around us.
I think Constantine invented the mould for christianity.
That he did not find some small and insignificant religion
in his empire, but that he created it for his own wicked
purposes.

That is not to say I have anything against the religion.
Any religion that uses an authoritative book is archaic,
and descendent from our common antiquity.

RED DAVE

Uh, actually, I don't recall that either she or my mother ever having much to say about him.

My mother has definitely visited his basilica in Rome, if that helps.

RED DAVE

mountainman

I'd like to see the Obelisk of Karnack one day.
Its somewhere in Rome as well.

Ammianus Marcellinus tells an interesting story
about how Constantine ripped the thing out of
its 1800 year foundations at the ancient temple
complex of Karnack, probably just before his
Nicaean interlude, and gave the usual
instructions for it to be hauled back to Rome
for public viewing.