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">Us Christians dindu nuffin! We preserved the legacy of Antiquity n shiet".
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>The anti-paganism policy of Constantine the Great evolved from the initial prohibition on the construction of new temples and the toleration of pagan sacrifices, to orders for the looting and the tearing down of the temples by the end of his reign.
>There were also frequent episodes of ordinary Christians destroying, pillaging, desecrating, andvandalizing many of the ancient pagan temples, tombs, groves, and monuments,
>Under the Constantian dynasty, pagans saw themselves increasingly marginalized: one court official, Libanius, petitioned Emperor Theodosius to stop the chaos that Christians were inflicting on the Empire with their destructive acts, only for "Saint" Ambrose to use his influence to encourage further suppression of paganism
>"Christians destroyed almost all political literature and threatened to cut off the hands of any copyist who dared to make new copies of the offending writings."
MacMullen, Ramsay (1997) Christianity & Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Yale University Press, p.4 quote
"Our sole copy of the sole work about political good sense by the person arguably best able to deliver it to us from classical antiquity, Cicero," writes Ramsay MacMullen, "was sponged out from the vellum to make room for the hundredth copy of Augustine's meditation on the psalms."
MacMullen, Ramsay (1997) "Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries", Viking and Compass
>"Saint Augustine of Hippo exhorted his congregation in Carthage to smash allsymbols of paganism they could lay their hands on"
Christcucks will conveniently forget to remember that most libraries and centers of learning were located in temple complexes, often as shrines to Apollo or the Muses.
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I don't really disagree with your point but just fyi Ramsay MacMullen has a very poor academic reputation. There's a reason none of his recent works were submitted for peer review.
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>>1706412
>MacMullen, Ramsay has a very poor academic reputation
>"When MacMullen was honored for a lifetime of scholarly achievement at the 2001 annual meeting of the American Historical Association with the Award for Scholarly Distinction, the award citation called him "the greatest historian of the Roman Empire alive today."[1] With important new books published in 2006 and 2009 and 2011 at the ages of 78 and 81 and 83, he remains a powerful voice for scholarly accuracy and lucidity among students of the Roman world."
Angry Christcuck detected.
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>>1706307
It's a shame we'll never get to read just how badly Julian the Apostate BTFO of Christianity.
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>>1706429
You're just quoting Wikipedia. I work with people who know the guy. In the 70s, sure, he was a decent historian, but now he just writes pop history with this weird bitter and resentful tone.
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>>1706639
What do you do?
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>>1706594
Daily reminder that the Church "Doctor" Cyril of Alexandria himself admitted that he hadn't dared to copy some of Julian's arguments in his 'Refutations' because they were too compelling and hard to refute soundly.
Typical Christcucks: just destroy whatever stumps them.
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