How could anyone named Gaius Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus be louis vuitton overnight bag blamed for the woes of Christianity today? Ahh, let me count the ways. Constantine the great (272-337). Few people could tell you anything about the Edict of Milan in 313CE, but it louis vuitton overnight bag changed the face of Christianity as we know it. And not for louis vuitton overnight bag the better.
As Constantine worked his way up the louis vuitton overnight bag Roman food chain, he kept embracing Christianity (in a sense) due to the vision at Milvian Bridge that louis vuitton overnight bag turned defeat into victory. That battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312CE changed the louis vuitton overnight bag fate and direction of Christianity forever.
Christianity moved from being a relational religion to louis vuitton overnight bag being a formal, state approved religion. The church went from being home-based to louis vuitton overnight bag being building based. The church went from being informal to formal. The people changed from louis vuitton overnight bag being “plain folks” to “celebrated dignataries” (as the world saw them).
The church went from louis vuitton overnight bag meeting at various times of the week, different days of the louis vuitton overnight bag week to meeting “officially” on Sunday! Can you believe that? It’s true. In 321CE, Constantine decreed that Sunday would be a day of rest- a legal holiday! It was a day to honor Mithras (the unconquered sun)- the cult of mithras.
While Constantine said he was a louis vuitton overnight bag Christian, he was like many today in that he was also a louis vuitton overnight bag pagan who practiced such. Constantine was also called the Pontifex Maximus (chief of the pagan priests). By the way, in the 15th century the Catholic Church adopted this title for the Catholic Pope as well. It’s amazing what we embrace and have not a clue as to why!
Blame it on Constantine? Well he did pass the baton to us; however, aren’t we the louis vuitton overnight bag people who have the options today, 1,700 years later, as to louis vuitton overnight bag whether we want to follow his ideas or not?
I think shame on us! 
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