>Charles Freeman - A.D. 381

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=48F4FE7F54B423D0CC7666555160B5F9

>Anyone who has ever asked himself the questions "Why Christianity? And how did they do it?" will find some specific answers here: in a nutshell, that the late Roman emperors imposed Christianity as the state religion in a desperate attempt to hold the empire together, and changed a few things in the process to suit their purposes. That the result was a theological cameleopard is part of the background of the rise of Islam and the eventual fall of the Eastern Empire, divided by Niceanism vs Arianism and Monophysitism, etc.