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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3090182, member: 83845&quot;]I don&#039;t think it was all that uncommon for early Christians to be baptized on their deathbed. The reason seems to be that this early in history the issue of sins committed after baptism was not settled. This was made clear with the Donatist controversy during he early 300s that claimed that Christian&#039;s who had handed over their bibles and sacrificed to pagan gods during Diocletian&#039;s persecution (Latin: Tratatores (those who hand over) I.E. traitors) could not come back to the faith.&nbsp; Many Christian&#039;s decided not to take the chance and only became &quot;officially&quot; Christian on thier deathbed to avoid the unresolved issue of sins committed after baptism.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus why give up Sol Invictus and Apollo if you don&#039;t have to? They always had his back before <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He was certainly ruthless and brutal, though so were Pompey, Alexander, Alfred and many other greats.&nbsp; Since I try not to judge ancients by my modern morals I would have to say that ruling the empire at this time for 31 years, 13 as sole ruler, is a pretty impressive achievement!</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that I still don&#039;t find Constantine nearly as interesting as most other emperors... especially his contemporary Diocletian <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an uninspiring Constantine I decidedly not looking to heaven</p><p>[ATTACH=full]779592[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s a guy who would have my vote to be &quot;the Great&quot; if Constantine gets to be!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]779593[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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