Accepted Quote by Rodney Stark

“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

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

— Alfred de Musset

“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

“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

I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the next several…

— Peter Adamson

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

But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented…

— Edward Gibbon

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

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

— Peter Jennings

... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the…

— Rodney Stark

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

— Charles Chilton Moore

Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city of the east, they…

— Pope Pius II