![]() ![]() What was going on in the 300s, you ask? Well, the emperor Constantine, who is not Keanu Reeves, basically legalized Christianity-no more getting sent to the coliseum to be crucified, hooray. Augustine lived way back in the 300s (CE) in North Africa, which, at that time, was part of the Roman Empire. We're not saying that Saint Augustine's Confessionsdid all this work by itself, but it sure as heck made some headway in this whole building a religion business. Even the idea of light as good and dark as evil (ever wonder why when Obi-Wan calls it the Dark Side we immediately know it's bad news?), which is one of the oldest tropes there is, had to come from somewhere. And how about convincing people not to have sex? Yeah, good luck with that. ![]() A lot of kinks had to be worked out first-like the fact that people didn't automatically accept the idea of a God who wasn't really made of anything, but was somehow everywhere at once. The religions of the world did not just spring into being all set and ready to go. ![]()
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