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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (24725)	8/30/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I do not claim to be an expert, but this bit of history seems to confirm Christine's contention that it took several centuries for Christians to come to any kind of a consensus on fundamental matters of doctrine - to define, in other words, what a Christian is. I also find it interesting that the council was convened by Constantine - meaning that it was called at the time that Christianity became a state religion. Perhaps I'm being cynical, but I doubt that doctrine was the only item on the agenda. An underground religion must avoid hierarchies and politics, which make it vulnerable to those who seek to destroy it. When a religion joins the state, this situation is reversed. The religious edifice becomes politicized, and corruption inevitably sets in. In a few millenia, if we're still around, historians may well conclude that the moral decline of Christianity began with the conversion of Constantine. Steve