Turning Points In Christian History

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In Roman history, there were many leaders treated Christian very bad, they regarded Christian as evil. Because they thought Christian is a threat to their traditional religion and their dominant position. So they started persecute, to frame and even killing Christian. On the basis of Tacitus which is a Rome historian’s record and narrate. Nero deliberately incendiary in Rome city and fabricate it against Christians. Afterwards Galelious did same thing to Christian twice in fifteen days. It compelled the empire in that period-Diocletian to make decision to kill Christians. And for incite people to hate Christian, many Politicians started rumors to Christian, like when Christians sacrifice God, they killed infant and drink their blood, ate the meat. And they said Christian incest a lot. They are trying to shirk all the sin happened in that years to Christian.
But the situation start changed when Constantinus I Magnus shows up. He is the first empire to revere Christian. He signed a edict to tolerant Christian. Which is Edict of Milan. It is a turning point in Christian history, it symbolized the policy that is to treat Christian start changed in a good way. The Edict of Milan announced the freedom to believe in Christian at Rome. And it legalized Christian’s status, also the edict requires people return the property that they
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But obviously, in his encourage and support, Christian got rapidly expand. In less than 100 years, Christianity from a minority religion become into a religion that has the dominant position in the largest empires in world. By virtue of that, he becomes to a key man in Europe history. In the list of’’ History's 100 Most Influential People’’, his rank even better than Alexander the Great, Napoleon and Hitler. Not to judge what purpose was he doing those things. He still was the one changed the situation in the darkest period in Christian

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