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I pulled this from the article below. It’s an old article about the pagan revival around the world. As they go over the various pagan revival groups around the world, they do briefly mention some of the neo-liberal pagans, like the feminist pagan lesbian professors, Wiccans and such, but that’s not why I’m sharing this. I wanted to point out what the say about the Roman Emperor Julian, who was the last pagan emperor. He was murdered in cold blood by his Christian bodyguard. This confirms what I’ve been saying, that those in power who run the world always present everything to the public backwards upside down. They always presented the pagans as the barbaric hostile violent ones, when in reality, it was always the opposite. You can read here that while emperor Julian was trying to preserve and protect the pagan faith, he was still being accepting of Christians, and was giving them the freedom to exist alongside with pagans. However, the high priests of Abrahamism didn’t give the pagans the same respect, they didn’t show the pagans the same kindness and mercy. They wanted to eradicate every single pagan faith and force everyone to convert or die.
Here is the part I pulled from the article: In June 363 CE, Roman Emperor Julian was murdered by his Christian bodyguard. One of the most fascinating – and tragic – figures of late antiquity, Julian was the last pagan emperor. During his short rule this philosopher king fought a valiant battle to save the ancient pagan religions of his empire from vicious attacks by a new, aggressively proselytising and intolerant religion. This new creed was Christianity.
Julian, firmly anchored in the Hellenistic religion of the ancient Greeks and Romans, was a liberal ruler and patronised all religions, including Christianity. The genial emperor was determined to restore the worship of the gods and the honoured Greek-Roman traditions. He tried to stop the Christian attacks on the Greek pantheon; he tried to reverse the policies directed against the pagan Greeks adopted by early Christian Roman emperors. He even intended rebuilding the sacred temple of the Jews.
Julian’s efforts to revive and support the pagan faiths were cut short when he was murdered by his Christian bodyguard during a campaign in Persia. They say, those whom the Gods love, die young; Julian was just 32. With their last patron gone, the pagan religions were doomed. The succeeding Roman emperors banned the worship of the Hellenic gods. Sacrifices to them were forbidden on the penalty of death. Millions of pagans were murdered by Christian goons led by newly converted priests. The Olympic Games, which had been introduced in remote antiquity by the great Greek warrior Hercules, were stopped. The Christians banned Greek studies and philosophy, freezing scientific development in Europe for a thousand years.
Pagan revival: Why it is a nightmare for Christianity | IndiaFactsIndiaFacts
Here is the part I pulled from the article: In June 363 CE, Roman Emperor Julian was murdered by his Christian bodyguard. One of the most fascinating – and tragic – figures of late antiquity, Julian was the last pagan emperor. During his short rule this philosopher king fought a valiant battle to save the ancient pagan religions of his empire from vicious attacks by a new, aggressively proselytising and intolerant religion. This new creed was Christianity.
Julian, firmly anchored in the Hellenistic religion of the ancient Greeks and Romans, was a liberal ruler and patronised all religions, including Christianity. The genial emperor was determined to restore the worship of the gods and the honoured Greek-Roman traditions. He tried to stop the Christian attacks on the Greek pantheon; he tried to reverse the policies directed against the pagan Greeks adopted by early Christian Roman emperors. He even intended rebuilding the sacred temple of the Jews.
Julian’s efforts to revive and support the pagan faiths were cut short when he was murdered by his Christian bodyguard during a campaign in Persia. They say, those whom the Gods love, die young; Julian was just 32. With their last patron gone, the pagan religions were doomed. The succeeding Roman emperors banned the worship of the Hellenic gods. Sacrifices to them were forbidden on the penalty of death. Millions of pagans were murdered by Christian goons led by newly converted priests. The Olympic Games, which had been introduced in remote antiquity by the great Greek warrior Hercules, were stopped. The Christians banned Greek studies and philosophy, freezing scientific development in Europe for a thousand years.
Pagan revival: Why it is a nightmare for Christianity | IndiaFactsIndiaFacts
IndiaFacts
Pagan revival: Why it is a nightmare for Christianity | IndiaFacts
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, seems to be on a crusade against paganism and pagan culture
The violent and hostile way Christianity gained power in Rome reminded me of how Christianity/Orthodoxy gained its power in Russia and all Slavic nations:
Prince Vladimir was named a saint by the Orthodox Church after he helped to establish christianity in pagan Slavic Russia. He went about it in a very Christian manner by killing his brother to gain power. Then he killed prince Rogvold, and his sons. So-called Saint Vladimir raped Rogvold’s daughter Rogneda, forcefully took her to wife. She bore him six children. Afterwards, Vladimir sent Rogneda away to a monastery and turned her into a nun, just so he could marry a Byzantium princess. Vladimir established Christianity in Russia, and after all of these heroic deeds the church named him a saint. All of the righteous rulers, descendants of hyperborean kings, the ones who belonged to the old world were exterminated one by one. And even if some of them fled to other parts of the world, they were located, hunted down and exterminated.
Prince Vladimir was named a saint by the Orthodox Church after he helped to establish christianity in pagan Slavic Russia. He went about it in a very Christian manner by killing his brother to gain power. Then he killed prince Rogvold, and his sons. So-called Saint Vladimir raped Rogvold’s daughter Rogneda, forcefully took her to wife. She bore him six children. Afterwards, Vladimir sent Rogneda away to a monastery and turned her into a nun, just so he could marry a Byzantium princess. Vladimir established Christianity in Russia, and after all of these heroic deeds the church named him a saint. All of the righteous rulers, descendants of hyperborean kings, the ones who belonged to the old world were exterminated one by one. And even if some of them fled to other parts of the world, they were located, hunted down and exterminated.
Christianity spread the exact same violent way in pagan Armenia. Official history about the beginning of the spread of Christianity in pagan Armenia doesn’t really make sense, because they tell you it was Saint Gregory who is credited with converting king Tiridates the Great. The very same king Tiridates the Great Who tortured and imprisoned Saint Gregory for 13 years into a place that’s called the pit of oblivion from where no one ever comes back. Officially they say king Tiridates the Great threw Saint Gregory into prison because he publicly made a stance against Armenian paganism by not participating in pagan rites. And then somehow by some miracle king Tiridates the Great frees the imprisoned Gregory, and gives him all this authority, and military power, and allows him to convert the entire Armenia to Christianity. Something doesn’t smell right with this story.
According to official history, this is what happens when king Tiridates the Great frees the imprisoned Saint Gregory after placing him in prison for 13 years, and I want to point out that this is official history, the genuine authentic history was probably much worse;
Gregory was then made the first bishop (katholikos) in Armenia's history c. 314 CE, and he set about formally establishing the Christian Church. To get the ball rolling, Tiridates gave Saint Gregory up to 15 provinces worth of territory to establish the Armenian Church. The old pagan temples were torn down, and the whole nation was obliged to embrace the new faith. Churches and monasteries sprang up everywhere, and the Armenian aristocracy quickly followed the royal family's example with many noble families converting to Christianity.
Saint Gregory, then, had state backing to spread the Gospel message, and it was a work continued by his descendants who inherited the role of first bishop of Armenia. Gregory used two powerful tools to spread the word: education and military power. Schools were established in which children of the existing pagan priestly class were prepared for the Christian priesthood. Meanwhile, military units were dispatched to destroy pagan temples
and confiscate their vast riches, which were then used to fund Christian building projects. Naturally, many temple sites, along with several rich and semi-independent feudal principalities, resisted the new policy and these were put to the sword. Pagan traditions were never fully eradicated but they certainly became weakened by the removal of the temples and their economic resources. Still, many anti-Christian and pro-Persian aristocratic families persisted in resisting at least into the next century. Gregory, meanwhile, oversaw mass baptisms in the Euphrates River; bishops were then appointed from the noble clans (nakharars) and lower priests from the class of knights (azats) to guide the ever-growing flock of faithful.
Even official history on Christianisation of Armenia says that it was done through military force, pagan temples destroyed and all those who resisted put to the sword
Source:
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/801/the-early-christianization-of-armenia/
Gregory was then made the first bishop (katholikos) in Armenia's history c. 314 CE, and he set about formally establishing the Christian Church. To get the ball rolling, Tiridates gave Saint Gregory up to 15 provinces worth of territory to establish the Armenian Church. The old pagan temples were torn down, and the whole nation was obliged to embrace the new faith. Churches and monasteries sprang up everywhere, and the Armenian aristocracy quickly followed the royal family's example with many noble families converting to Christianity.
Saint Gregory, then, had state backing to spread the Gospel message, and it was a work continued by his descendants who inherited the role of first bishop of Armenia. Gregory used two powerful tools to spread the word: education and military power. Schools were established in which children of the existing pagan priestly class were prepared for the Christian priesthood. Meanwhile, military units were dispatched to destroy pagan temples
and confiscate their vast riches, which were then used to fund Christian building projects. Naturally, many temple sites, along with several rich and semi-independent feudal principalities, resisted the new policy and these were put to the sword. Pagan traditions were never fully eradicated but they certainly became weakened by the removal of the temples and their economic resources. Still, many anti-Christian and pro-Persian aristocratic families persisted in resisting at least into the next century. Gregory, meanwhile, oversaw mass baptisms in the Euphrates River; bishops were then appointed from the noble clans (nakharars) and lower priests from the class of knights (azats) to guide the ever-growing flock of faithful.
Even official history on Christianisation of Armenia says that it was done through military force, pagan temples destroyed and all those who resisted put to the sword
Source:
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/801/the-early-christianization-of-armenia/
World History Encyclopedia
The Early Christianization of Armenia
The Christianization of Armenia began with the work of Syrian apostles from the 1st century CE and was boosted in the early 4th century CE by such figures as Saint Gregory the Illuminator, who converted...