<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->While we might think of that tolerance as some great virtue, all the miseries that the world has endured as a result of Xtianity could have been prevented if he had just wiped them out.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> I read in several places that Julian was extra purposefully "tolerant" of christians precisely because the whinies liked to scream "persecution" at the earliest opportunity. His plan was to give them not the minutest of reasons for resorting to that tactic of theirs (and that was again something that vexed the churches very much: they only had any chance of duping converts with their martyr stories, as they could then whine to the rest of the populace about "injustices against their meek selves". Same as today actually.) And he would give them no opportunity to take the moral high ground vis-a-vis him. That is why they hated and feared him more than any of the emperors accused of christian persecution: he gave them no martyrs and therefore no advertising chance, AND his gathering many philosophers to write against christianism was sounding christianism's death knell.
Their writings exposed what a petty little religion christianity was to the Roman population while his actions showed the people what a better religion they already had.
<b>EDITED:</b> He made very conscious choices in his governance. He would go the extra mile on everything. He was not like other Emperors who merely saw christianism as "a petty ideology out there". He knew well what it was capable of and was determined to destroy it, and he planned his campaign carefully. For instance, the restitution of the Jerusalem Temple was meant to show not only the tolerance of Roman Paganism toward Judaism (in clear contrast to the anti-semitism of the Church), but also specifically in order to break a central prophecy of the Babble: that the Temple would never come up again or something. Unlike the other "prophecies" in the babble about jesus which were all backdated (like jesus being of the line of David, etcetera), the prophecy of the temple was directed toward the future.
The Church was praying to their non-existent jeebus to save them from this unrecoverable embarassment. Their hatred and fear of Julian - who was the man who could do it - skyrocketed.
So the faithful cannibal sheep killed him and the church has congratulated itself on this great success ever since. Only in the initial stages was christianism vulnerable and it was most vulnerable under Julian. But apparently, the church is still scared just thinking about him (again, this is from what I read).
I will search for the links on all the above as soon as I can.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Julian was Caesar for 5 years (all that time restricted in power by his cousin Constantius) and Emperor (Augustus) for only 3 years of which considerable time was spent in the Persian campaign.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->IIRC he was emperor from his 28th to 32nd year when he was murdered by the Religion of Love and its sheepy followers which looks to be confirmed by what you wrote.
Their writings exposed what a petty little religion christianity was to the Roman population while his actions showed the people what a better religion they already had.
<b>EDITED:</b> He made very conscious choices in his governance. He would go the extra mile on everything. He was not like other Emperors who merely saw christianism as "a petty ideology out there". He knew well what it was capable of and was determined to destroy it, and he planned his campaign carefully. For instance, the restitution of the Jerusalem Temple was meant to show not only the tolerance of Roman Paganism toward Judaism (in clear contrast to the anti-semitism of the Church), but also specifically in order to break a central prophecy of the Babble: that the Temple would never come up again or something. Unlike the other "prophecies" in the babble about jesus which were all backdated (like jesus being of the line of David, etcetera), the prophecy of the temple was directed toward the future.
The Church was praying to their non-existent jeebus to save them from this unrecoverable embarassment. Their hatred and fear of Julian - who was the man who could do it - skyrocketed.
So the faithful cannibal sheep killed him and the church has congratulated itself on this great success ever since. Only in the initial stages was christianism vulnerable and it was most vulnerable under Julian. But apparently, the church is still scared just thinking about him (again, this is from what I read).
I will search for the links on all the above as soon as I can.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Julian was Caesar for 5 years (all that time restricted in power by his cousin Constantius) and Emperor (Augustus) for only 3 years of which considerable time was spent in the Persian campaign.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->IIRC he was emperor from his 28th to 32nd year when he was murdered by the Religion of Love and its sheepy followers which looks to be confirmed by what you wrote.
Death to traitors.