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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2746625, member: 76194&quot;]His merits? What merits?</p><p><br /></p><p>The man killed his son, then murdered his wife, and after promising to spare his brother in law and nephew as a demonstration of his Christian virtue, he nevertheless murdered them. He had a depraved heart full of malice and avarice.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]628080[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And not content with his personal debauchery, he dismantled the tetrarchy and thrust the empire back into one man rule, which was unsustainable, and inevitably was the direct causation of needless civil wars which further weakened the Empire in the mid-4rth Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]628084[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And not content with murder aforethought and political blunders, the man meddled needlessly in religion, thus further weakening the empire by creating an atmosphere of disunity between Christians that would lead to a focus in fighting each other over &quot;heresies&quot; instead of devoting their full focus to the external threats to the empire. I would also question his policies of preferring one religion over the rest, but that would take too much space in this thread and wouldn&#039;t be fair to the rest of you.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]628086[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m just getting warmed up in this odious little man, with his jewel encrusted clothes and unmanly demeanor, who brought nothing but pain and war to whatever his evil little hands touched.</p><p><br /></p><p>But for the sake of this thread, I&#039;ll hold my tongue and keep to myself everything I think about him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have an unhappy Birthday, Constantine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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