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61. Emperor Constantine

Undeceptions with John Dickson

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The History of Christian Anti-Semitism

Constantine banned Jews from owning Christian slaves on the absurd grounds that it was improper quote that those whom the Savior had ransomed should be subjected to the yoke of slavery by a people who had slain the prophets and the lord himself. So they psychologized his conversion as desperately trying to persuade you to turn for what he'd done so in other words no doubt he did it. No doubt at all. There's another nasty aspect of Constantine's reign he legislated against the Jewish people there had been a long history of Roman resentment and mistreatment of the Jews. The first anti-Semitic law was ratified on the 8th of May 336 that's almost exactly a year before Constantine

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