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Shit gets complicated when your god of war and god of peace become the same god.

Maybe they didn't get the memo from Nietzsche that Christianity was a philosophy of weakness.

Funny how the American empire has a founding myth of freedom from religious oppression, but it has turned ever further from those ideals over time

once, the empire recognized many Biggus Dickuses now, however, there is only one Biggus Dickus, the Biggusest Dickus of them all

It’s for their own good

To be fair. By the time they adopted Christianity, the Empire both East and West were weaker than before.

“Render unto Caesar…”

There's maybe a bit of branding involved considering there were neighboring non-Roman Christian groups that might be more amenable to joining Rome than they were pre-Constantine

I used to be the type of atheist who tended to believe that religion is intrinsically bad but then I realised that it doesn't really change much at all. People just use religion to justify what they were going to do anyway, whether good or bad.