Originally Posted by concretecork
you are all on the right track, the roman emporer got converted to christianity from a pagan religion. Before chrictianity Romans worshiped the sun god RAA. Constantine made it legal (previously illegal to worship jesus) because he became a christian. And he choose the date december 25 why? Because it was the date they celebrated raa the sun god.
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...And why did he convert you might ask? Officially it is because he saw a cross and was told to conquer in the name of the cross. The reality is actually a combination of two things. The first is that he was such a monster that no other religion would accept him anymore...the second is because Christianity is a great way of controlling people.