When Constantine decreed
Christianity
In the empire
He had completed
The most unlikely revolution
In the history of
The world.
Many lies resulted.
Lies about what it cost the world,
Lies about what it replaced,
Lies about what the world became,
All in the service
Of blind,
Willful,
Ignorance.
Christianity changed the world.
It took a civilization
That was indulging itself
Into nonexistence
And suggested
That maybe
It was better
To see value
In each other,
Not in some myth,
Not in the service
Of an empire,
But in a shared belief
That the point to all this
Is love.
You don’t have to believe
Anything else
To see the value
In this.
So the greatest act of freedom
Is now seen
As a shackle
The world must escape
In order to emerge
Into civilization.
Well,
Believing that
Is a choice.
A curious one,
If you don’t mind
Me saying.
1 comment:
Constantine ruined everything - both Christianity and Rome. Christianity was social revolution. When the most powerful man in the world became a Christian, there was a big problem.
And that, 17 centuries later, is the world we've inherited.
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