Prudentius, writing years after Julian's death, proclaimed of him: False to the Lord, although true to the world

An apt summary of humanism. I love it.

Thank you Julian! May your tribe continue to increase.

My favorite Roman Emperor, Flavius Julianus, was a true philosopher king. Though trained in Christianity, he rejected its exclusivism and advocated the resurgence of the 'pagan' cults. The 'bearded one' also threw his support into a campaign to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

He is the kind of leader we need for such a time as this, when militant, angry fundamentalist Christianity threatens to create a new theocracy in America.

May God bless to our lives the memory of his short life!!

If there were such a place or thing as 'hell', then the lowest rung would be reserved for this SOB--Flavius Theodosius, Spanish General who was appointed Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire by Gratian.

To him we owe the finalization of the church-state merger, based on his decree that anything contrary to Nicean theology (Jesus=God) was to be accounted heresy. On his watch Arian Christians (and Jews) were persecuted; buildings destroyed and dogma enforced.