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A 4th century power struggle played out across the Mediterranean world brought a minor sect of religious extremists to centre stage. Finding themselves on the winning side and cosseted within imperial residences, bishops of the Christian Church were able to impose their faith upon a demoralised population using all the sanctions of the State. And as the empire fragmented and fell, ambitious clerics of Christ disseminated a cancer of superstition, fear and brutality far beyond the old imperial frontiers.
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As it waited in the wings of pagan Rome, the Catholic Church was already marked by corruption, violence and sexual scandal
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The fanatics of Christ proved useful to the ambitious prince who set his sights on absolute and undivided power.
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Romano-Hellenic culture was transformed by the “Church Fathers” of Bigotry, Anti-Semitism, Prudery, Censorship & Intolerance.
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The psychosis of “Christian piety” corrupted Roman leadership and vigour.
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A young emperor’s preoccupation with the Gothic threat set loose the limitless ambition of the Bishop of Rome.
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The first Christian fanatic on the throne of the Caesars criminalized and punished a large part of the population of the whole empire.
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Christianizing of the Heathen – with Axe and Sword
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The Christianizing of Ireland
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Catholic Vanities Subjugate the Saxons
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Murder of Hypatia, The Ruin of Classic Scholarship in Egypt
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Catholicism’s Struggle for Power with Arianism
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Muslim Scholars or Irish Monks? Damascus Spring
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The Christianizing of Iberia
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Imperial Wizard – The Papal Bid for Mastery of the World
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