An Emperor’s Church

The really wonderful folk at Wikipedia figure that it was today in 325 that the bloody handed tyrant Constantine pulled together enough bishops to create a council to drive through the church he wanted to see. He got it.

They could have done a better job.

Now I freely admit if I had those heavily armed soldiers there to “protect” me, I can’t say I would have done it.

(Truth in commenting: I’m not one of those who fantasize that an Arian church would have been better. Me, my heart goes with a couple of the variations on gnostic, for instance Pagel’s Valentinus…)

Whatever, we got we got,

an Emperor’s Church