Related to the above.
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2a.htm
A little further down and Arius and Arians is mentioned. My comments inserted in purple.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â In 380, the Roman Christian Emperor Theodosius passed a decree that read:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â Â Â "We shall believe in the single Deity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, under the concept of equal majesty and of the Holy Trinity. <b>We command that those persons who follow this rule shall embrace the name of Catholic Christians.</b>
(Definition! All protestants included in that term. And so too the Orthodox Christians, I think? They are those who follow the credo, i.e. hold to the Trinity - you know, "In nomine patris, et filis, et spiritus sancti". Sign of cross with 4 points and yet 3 entities: 'in the name of the priestly father=gawd, the sin=jeebus, and the holy sanctimonious spook'.)
The rest, however, whom We adjudge demented and insane, shall sustain the infamy of heretical dogmas, their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitten first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment."
(Exactly what that 'doctor of the church', the theologian santa Thomas Aquinas said in 1271: "Unbelievers deserve not only to be separated from the Church, but also... to be exterminated from the World by death.")
  -- Helen Ellerbe, The Dark Side of Christian History<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â Already in 385 C.E. the first Christians, the Spanish Priscillianus and six followers, were beheaded for heresy in Trier/Germany
  Manichaean heresy: a crypto-Christian sect decent enough to practice birth control (and thus not as irresponsible as faithful Catholics) was exterminated in huge campaigns all over the Roman empire between 372 C.E. and 444 C.E. Numerous thousands of victims.
  -- Opus Diaboli, by Karlheinz Deschner
Link http://web.archive.org/web/20021012152454/...eo/victims.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â Repression began as soon as the Christians gained control of the Roman Empire. Constantine jailed and suppressed Christian bishops who supported Arius. Arius was considered a heretic (325 c.e.) who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, and the unity of the godhead (trinity.) In 385 c.e. The dissident (i.e. heretic) Priscillian and his followers were executed for heresy.
Link http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/triumph_...stianities.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Roman Christianity persecuting other Christianities:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â # In 317 Constantine's Roman Christian sectarians in Carthage filled the well outside the main Donatist [non-Roman Christian] church with the bodies of their Christian opponents.
 # In 333 AD Constantine issued edicts against "Arius, wicked and impious," forbidding his teaching and even outlawing owning the Arian version of the New Testament.
 # In 382, in Egypt, celebrating Easter on the day set aside by the local non-Roman Christian sect was punishable by death.
 # In 383, in Spain, Urbanica was stoned to death and her bishop Priscillian was executed for their non-Roman Christian beliefs.
 # St. Augustine describes the sectarian struggles in North Africa, in which believers had their eyes torn out and one bishop had his hands and tongue cut off. [Augustine, Epistles 44.7]
(Didn't happen in Godhra - despite what christoterrorist liar Suzanna Margaret 'arundhoti' Roy et al penned - but has always happened when christians congregate.)
From: Triumph over other Christianities http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/triumph_...stianities.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Besides determining which books belonged in the Christian Canon, the councils also determined which concepts and beliefs were to become part of Christian doctrine, and which would be classed as heresy and its adherents persecuted. They also decided Church practices, such as moving the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â The history of these councils is both bewildering and abominable. ...Contrary to the naive opinion that the deliberations of church councils were infused by the power of divine guidance, most of the councils â and their aftermaths â were pretty ghastly affairs. [Link] http://www.atheists.org/christianity/realbible.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i><b>The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325):</b></i> The first Christian Emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great, after having many of his close relatives put to death, convened this Council to determine which of the Christian factions with opposing ideas on the matter of the nature of Jesus should be considered orthodoxy:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The burning question of the council was the argument between Arius and Bishop Alexander of Alexandria. Arius claimed Jesus was essentially distinct from the Father, having been created ex nihilo by the latter. Alexander, however, claimed
    "as God is eternal, so is his Son â when the Father, then the Son â the Son is present in God without birth, ever-begotten, an unbegotten-begotten."
  By a packed vote, Arius was condemned as a heretic, excommunicated, and exiled. Three years later, however, Constantine ... recalled Arius to Constantinople. On the very day Arius was to reenter the Cathedral in triumph, his bowels suddenly burst out in a privy, obviating any need to redefine orthodoxy. The orthodox considered it a miracle; the Arians knew it was murder.
Link http://www.atheists.org/christianity/realbible.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In time, the rival doctrines of Arius were declared a heresy. For this, Arianism was persecuted out of existence: since the Northern tribes and many others belonged to this Christian sect, the mainstream Church persecuted the highly numerous Arians to their deaths.
Whenever a vestige of this early heretical Christian sect resurfaced, it would be instantly suppressed. 16th century Protestant England, for instance, burnt an Arian to death.
<b>See also:</b> The Arian Controversy and its demise ( http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/arian.html ), how the heretical Arianism was murdered out by Catholicism ( http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/arianism.html ), more on Arius during Constantine's reign ( http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/c1.htm ) and afterwards ( http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/c2.htm )<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The non-existent jeebus is full of miracles. Deadly miracles.
Oh this is always funny, am sorry if I keep repasting it here every little while. From the same link http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2a.htm
The History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Among a countless host of disputants may be mentioned</b> Arians, Basilidians, Carpocratians, Collyridians, Eutychians, Gnostics, Jacobites, Marcionites, Marionites, Nestorians, Sabellians, Valentinians.
Of these, the Marionites regarded the Trinity as consisting of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Virgin Mary; the Collyridians worshiped the Virgin as a divinity, offering her sacrifices of cakes; the Nestorians, as we have seen, denied that God had "a mother."
<b>...But, though they were irreconcilable in matters of faith, there was one point in which all these sects agreed - ferocious hatred and persecution of each other.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->All "True Christians", don't you know.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Africa was equally disturbed by the factions of the rival bishops Caecilian and Donatus, which afflicted its provinces above three hundred years, the feud being only extinguished when Christianity was overcome by Mohammedanism. <b>Excommunicated by the Western Church, the Donatists boldly excommunicated all other churches than their own.</b>
-- Crimes of Christianity, by G W Foote and J M Wheeler
Link http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/c2.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2a.htm
A little further down and Arius and Arians is mentioned. My comments inserted in purple.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â In 380, the Roman Christian Emperor Theodosius passed a decree that read:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â Â Â "We shall believe in the single Deity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, under the concept of equal majesty and of the Holy Trinity. <b>We command that those persons who follow this rule shall embrace the name of Catholic Christians.</b>
(Definition! All protestants included in that term. And so too the Orthodox Christians, I think? They are those who follow the credo, i.e. hold to the Trinity - you know, "In nomine patris, et filis, et spiritus sancti". Sign of cross with 4 points and yet 3 entities: 'in the name of the priestly father=gawd, the sin=jeebus, and the holy sanctimonious spook'.)
The rest, however, whom We adjudge demented and insane, shall sustain the infamy of heretical dogmas, their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitten first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment."
(Exactly what that 'doctor of the church', the theologian santa Thomas Aquinas said in 1271: "Unbelievers deserve not only to be separated from the Church, but also... to be exterminated from the World by death.")
  -- Helen Ellerbe, The Dark Side of Christian History<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â Already in 385 C.E. the first Christians, the Spanish Priscillianus and six followers, were beheaded for heresy in Trier/Germany
  Manichaean heresy: a crypto-Christian sect decent enough to practice birth control (and thus not as irresponsible as faithful Catholics) was exterminated in huge campaigns all over the Roman empire between 372 C.E. and 444 C.E. Numerous thousands of victims.
  -- Opus Diaboli, by Karlheinz Deschner
Link http://web.archive.org/web/20021012152454/...eo/victims.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â Repression began as soon as the Christians gained control of the Roman Empire. Constantine jailed and suppressed Christian bishops who supported Arius. Arius was considered a heretic (325 c.e.) who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, and the unity of the godhead (trinity.) In 385 c.e. The dissident (i.e. heretic) Priscillian and his followers were executed for heresy.
Link http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/triumph_...stianities.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Roman Christianity persecuting other Christianities:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â # In 317 Constantine's Roman Christian sectarians in Carthage filled the well outside the main Donatist [non-Roman Christian] church with the bodies of their Christian opponents.
 # In 333 AD Constantine issued edicts against "Arius, wicked and impious," forbidding his teaching and even outlawing owning the Arian version of the New Testament.
 # In 382, in Egypt, celebrating Easter on the day set aside by the local non-Roman Christian sect was punishable by death.
 # In 383, in Spain, Urbanica was stoned to death and her bishop Priscillian was executed for their non-Roman Christian beliefs.
 # St. Augustine describes the sectarian struggles in North Africa, in which believers had their eyes torn out and one bishop had his hands and tongue cut off. [Augustine, Epistles 44.7]
(Didn't happen in Godhra - despite what christoterrorist liar Suzanna Margaret 'arundhoti' Roy et al penned - but has always happened when christians congregate.)
From: Triumph over other Christianities http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/triumph_...stianities.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Besides determining which books belonged in the Christian Canon, the councils also determined which concepts and beliefs were to become part of Christian doctrine, and which would be classed as heresy and its adherents persecuted. They also decided Church practices, such as moving the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â The history of these councils is both bewildering and abominable. ...Contrary to the naive opinion that the deliberations of church councils were infused by the power of divine guidance, most of the councils â and their aftermaths â were pretty ghastly affairs. [Link] http://www.atheists.org/christianity/realbible.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i><b>The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325):</b></i> The first Christian Emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great, after having many of his close relatives put to death, convened this Council to determine which of the Christian factions with opposing ideas on the matter of the nature of Jesus should be considered orthodoxy:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The burning question of the council was the argument between Arius and Bishop Alexander of Alexandria. Arius claimed Jesus was essentially distinct from the Father, having been created ex nihilo by the latter. Alexander, however, claimed
    "as God is eternal, so is his Son â when the Father, then the Son â the Son is present in God without birth, ever-begotten, an unbegotten-begotten."
  By a packed vote, Arius was condemned as a heretic, excommunicated, and exiled. Three years later, however, Constantine ... recalled Arius to Constantinople. On the very day Arius was to reenter the Cathedral in triumph, his bowels suddenly burst out in a privy, obviating any need to redefine orthodoxy. The orthodox considered it a miracle; the Arians knew it was murder.
Link http://www.atheists.org/christianity/realbible.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In time, the rival doctrines of Arius were declared a heresy. For this, Arianism was persecuted out of existence: since the Northern tribes and many others belonged to this Christian sect, the mainstream Church persecuted the highly numerous Arians to their deaths.
Whenever a vestige of this early heretical Christian sect resurfaced, it would be instantly suppressed. 16th century Protestant England, for instance, burnt an Arian to death.
<b>See also:</b> The Arian Controversy and its demise ( http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/arian.html ), how the heretical Arianism was murdered out by Catholicism ( http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/arianism.html ), more on Arius during Constantine's reign ( http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/c1.htm ) and afterwards ( http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/c2.htm )<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The non-existent jeebus is full of miracles. Deadly miracles.
Oh this is always funny, am sorry if I keep repasting it here every little while. From the same link http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2a.htm
The History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Among a countless host of disputants may be mentioned</b> Arians, Basilidians, Carpocratians, Collyridians, Eutychians, Gnostics, Jacobites, Marcionites, Marionites, Nestorians, Sabellians, Valentinians.
Of these, the Marionites regarded the Trinity as consisting of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Virgin Mary; the Collyridians worshiped the Virgin as a divinity, offering her sacrifices of cakes; the Nestorians, as we have seen, denied that God had "a mother."
<b>...But, though they were irreconcilable in matters of faith, there was one point in which all these sects agreed - ferocious hatred and persecution of each other.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->All "True Christians", don't you know.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Africa was equally disturbed by the factions of the rival bishops Caecilian and Donatus, which afflicted its provinces above three hundred years, the feud being only extinguished when Christianity was overcome by Mohammedanism. <b>Excommunicated by the Western Church, the Donatists boldly excommunicated all other churches than their own.</b>
-- Crimes of Christianity, by G W Foote and J M Wheeler
Link http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/c2.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->