Why a bloody emperor as Constantine is called the Holy emperor?
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jacfar-Holland
ANSWERS: 4
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Well who was gonna argue with him?
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I believe because Constantine was the founder of Christianity.
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For the same reasons that Moses, Mohammed, etc are considered Holy. All were bloody, but it makes a difference if you are bloody in the name of a deity.
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actually he wasnt called holy emperor at all, that came some 500 years later with charlemagne and the so-called "holy roman empire" constantine did not, by the way, found christianity, he merely founded what is today the catholic church after declaring the official roman religion as "christian" instead of pagan. the pagan religion then synchretised with christian beliefs giving what is today the catholic church and its many anti-biblical beliefs and practices. eg: praying to dead people, worship of mary as "the mother of God", hierarchy in the church, even the pope's title of pontifex maximus was actually the title of the head of the pagan church.
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