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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7960411, member: 84905&quot;]I read in a biography of Constantine that one should not dismiss the seriousness of his conversion to Christianity. However, he had his own interpretation, which included him being some kind of new Christ and he had his own political motives. The latter included in particular the wish to install a cult that would unify the empire, in the sense of one God, one empire, one emperor. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hence, Constantine was very irritated and annoyed by the various Christian heresies that sprung up during his reign. And rightly so, heresy (Arians, Donatists, Monophysites etc.) would be a defining hallmark of late antiquity and a key factor that weakened the empire to the point that large parts would fall to Islam in the 7th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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