Quote: r3x29yz4a said: There was no real knowledge or record of when Jesus was born. But it certainly wasn't being celebrated in late december. By changing the winter solstace into a christian holiday it allowed pagans to feel more comfortable celebrating a christian holiday on their already sacred time, while christians would see it as their day and not mind the formerly pagan holiday.
Your innaccurate description of the deciphering of Christ's birth aside, the fact that the Christian holiday wasn't at all changed through evolving the customs for the sake of the pagans makes your case moot. That doesn't merge paganism with Christianity in how you've denoted it.
Quote: What Constantine did was more of a stroke of political genius. There was a lot of strife in the empire, his subtle blending of paganism into christianity helped to stabilize things and unite a lot of people behind him.
Yeah, but you see, he didn't blend paganism into Christianity. He converted Pagans into Christians.
