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Guy who killed a bunch of christians until they became too popular: “g-guys! Trust me! I will invent catholicism and be the true successor of Jesus!”
Thinking about what would have happened to Catholicism if the Johannine Middle Platonists and mystics hadn't mostly supplanted Pauline Christology in the late 2nd century and it's not a good feeling.
The Roman empire basically adopted Christianity in the same way the FBI tweeted a celebratory tweet on MLK day.