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Please, no. We've provided enough bandwidth for Pete (mountainman) to try to prove his thesis.

If there were many variations of Christianity before Constantine, mountainman's thesis is disproven.

If anyone prayed to Jesus Christ before Constantine, mountainman's thesis is disproven.

Mountainman combines some statements that it would be hard to disagree with - Constantine was an imperial ruler, Eusebius probably forged a few documents, Christians have forged lots of historical artifacts - with statements that are just off the mark. And when shown the error of his thinking, he won't adjust.

Pete maintains that Constantine did not just shape Christianity, but that he invented it whole cloth in the fourth century. He claims that only carbon dated archeological evidence can be used to refute his hypothesis, however well founded the dating of the finds.

But you will not find anyone else here who thinks that Pete has a coherent theory, besides Pete.

Jeffrey Gibson may be lacking in tact and diplomacy, but don't let that create some sympathy for Pete's ideas.

Transient

No problems.
I sort of agree with Avi - it does seem rather a bizare and unlikely thing for a character like Constantine to do - more likely he was trying to stabilize an untidy mess of a religion that was becoming important to religious people in his empire.