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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (36603)	5/7/2014 2:53:20 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Alexander the Great and his empire was owned by a church? The Roman empire was owned by a church? "It is not untrue to say that the Roman Empire, the spread of Christianity as a world religion, and the long centuries of Byzantium were all in some degree the fruits of Alexander's achievement." --Encyclopædia Britannica religionfacts.com " Alexander the Great used religion to inspire loyalty in his followers and the people conquered. To do this, he honored Egyptian and Persian gods as well as Greek gods. He gained the loyalty of Egyptians by visiting oracle sites, making sacrifices, and building temples in their honor. A priest even came up to him and told him that he was "God's son." Alexander also encouraged the idea that he was also a god. He began wearing a crown that had two rams' horns on it. People believed he was a god because he wore this crown. He spread this story throughout the empire. Later, he forced everyone to believe that he was the son of Zeus." sites.google.com