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Constantine's Conversion To Christianity (disregarding The Genuineness Of His Conversion) Was A Bad Thing For True Christianity (see Acts).
Without persecution, Christians don't do as well. Without the fire, the gold can't be refined.
 Stranger  02 Apr 2009 18:15
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Destroy the church from the inside out. What better way, huh?
 
 gottfried  02 Apr 2009 19:15
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 The threat is often worse from the inside than out. True.
by  Stranger
 03 Apr 2009 20:18
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Since I don't play the "no true Scotsman" game, answering the question is really irrelevant. However, I would argue that Constantine's conversion, genuine or not, was a bad thing for the entire planet because it's what allowed Christianity to spread unchecked, often at the point of the sword, and plunged the western world into a darkness that we're still dealing with today.

Had Constantine never converted, Christianity and indeed, all of the Abrahamic religions, may well have vanished into the mists of time, and rightfully so.
 
 Cephus  02 Apr 2009 19:02
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 Hey, Cephus. It's been a while.
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 03 Apr 2009 20:19
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