*nods* that makes sense -- even 50 years out is enough for it to become nostalgic, so to speak.
he tried to organize them, since of course the very efficient way the Christians were organized had been one big reason Constantine was able to integrate them into the state so quickly.
Heh, I didn't realize that and I love it. Logistics for the win!
When he visited his first temple of Apollo post becoming Emperor, he was massively disappointed - everything was neglected, the priest wasn't very interested and went through lacklustre motions sacrificing a chicken (a chicken! how banal was that!).
lolololol! Poor Julian :D
He knew that straightforward persecution of Christians a la Diocletian and Galerius would just produce martyrs.
That's... putting him above quite a lot of other people :P Although I suppose he had direct and recent evidenec for this!
he did something Mike Duncan cracked me up by describing as: "Confronting Christians with the one enemy they hated, despised and feared the most: other Christians." I.e. if every religion is legal again, that means Arians and every other subsection of Christianity are just as valid as the orthodoxy his late uncle had thrown the weight of the state behind, and you can forget about the Council of Nicea having formulated the one true Credo.
AHAHAHAHA omg. It's funny because it's true! (argh, I have to start listening to these podcasts! My master plan has suffered a setback due to the car with the good audio system being less available for a month or so, but one day maybe I'll get to it...)
So Christian parents had the choice of either letting their children be taught by non-Christians (thus exposing them to, Julian clearly hoped, a non-Christian mindset), or not giving them a good education.
Re: Julian the Apostate
he tried to organize them, since of course the very efficient way the Christians were organized had been one big reason Constantine was able to integrate them into the state so quickly.
Heh, I didn't realize that and I love it. Logistics for the win!
When he visited his first temple of Apollo post becoming Emperor, he was massively disappointed - everything was neglected, the priest wasn't very interested and went through lacklustre motions sacrificing a chicken (a chicken! how banal was that!).
lolololol! Poor Julian :D
He knew that straightforward persecution of Christians a la Diocletian and Galerius would just produce martyrs.
That's... putting him above quite a lot of other people :P Although I suppose he had direct and recent evidenec for this!
he did something Mike Duncan cracked me up by describing as: "Confronting Christians with the one enemy they hated, despised and feared the most: other Christians." I.e. if every religion is legal again, that means Arians and every other subsection of Christianity are just as valid as the orthodoxy his late uncle had thrown the weight of the state behind, and you can forget about the Council of Nicea having formulated the one true Credo.
AHAHAHAHA omg. It's funny because it's true!
(argh, I have to start listening to these podcasts! My master plan has suffered a setback due to the car with the good audio system being less available for a month or so, but one day maybe I'll get to it...)
So Christian parents had the choice of either letting their children be taught by non-Christians (thus exposing them to, Julian clearly hoped, a non-Christian mindset), or not giving them a good education.
Ooh, that's really interesting.