Atheism Quote by Charles Chilton Moore

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

— Peter Jennings

The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“In The Bloudy Tenent, Williams points out that Constantine "did more to hurt Christ Jesus than the raging fury of the most bloody Neroes."…

— Sarah Vowell

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted…

— John Stuart Mill

In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which…

— Dan Brown

“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side…

— Paul Johnson

“It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a…

— Charles Freeman

Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the…

— Rodney Stark

“The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end…

— Norman F. Cantor

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

— Will Durant

Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What brought this…

— C. Wagner

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

— Kenneth Scott Latourette