Thread by @KrisAtLarge

#Christianity is a lot of absurd things. it makes promises about itself that never worked out in practice.

and one of the *strangest* of those failed promises is the Christian insistence upon the Holy #Trinity, which barely any Christian these days honors in any real way.

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the Trinity was such an important issue for early Christian leaders that there were dreary squabbles and doctrinal mudfights and infighting over heresy during the new religion's early centuries, provoking the unfortunate interference of Roman tyrant Constantine the Great.

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Constantine wanted to grab onto Christianity as a unifying force for the _imperium_—it was a serious lapse in judgment, for Christianity is an anticohesive spiritual force—and thus he moved to help iron out Christian doctrine into a neat formula. hence, the Nicene Creed.

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it was Nicene Christianity, specifically, which the first ever Christofascıst tyrant, Theodosius the Great, *forced* upon the entire Roman _imperium_ as its new official religion, after which followed a wave of destruction and persecution of all competing religions.

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Theodosius supplies the closest historical model for the @MattWalshBlog / @DavidAFrench / @shadihamid / @RonDeSantisFL sort of "conservative" leader: he was God and Caesar in one being, the head of a grinding slavedriving bloodstained military dictatorship—but with Jesus.

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Theodosius the Great gave us Mussolini and Hitler and Generalissimos Franco and Pinochet, and he gave us @realDonaldTrump and @RonDeSantisFL and @elonmusk. he was the original, the prototypical Christian fascıst—so far anyway, all fascıst governments have been Christian.

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anyway, Theodosius forced the Trinity onto his great empire; within decades, it rotted to pieces.

Christianity may not have killed the Roman Empire, quite—there's a case to be made the Empire was bleeding to death from the time of its creation. but Christianity *helped*.

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it was like the opportunistic infection that finished off the victim of a different illness. Rome was always corrupt and money-mad and oppressive and hopelessly bureaucratic, and finally Christianity infected that rotten imperial machinery and took it completely to pieces.

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because of the #Trinity!

and now hardly any Christian *really* believes in it. they've made the Son subordinate to the Father, and the Holy Spirit has gone winging off to strange corners and bizarre superstitions. maybe @jordanbpeterson thinks he's got the Holy Ghost.

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do Christians even really know what they believe in, any more? other than their own greatness?

~Chara of Pnictogen