How Constantine Used Religion as a Political Tool to Unite a Fractured Empire

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]It was a pagan emperor presiding over the codification of a religion he used as a political tool to unite a fractured empire. It was here and in subsequent councils that the original monotheistic message was diluted and blended with Roman and Greek paganism.

[00:00:21]The concept of the Trinity, a doctrine nowhere to be found in the original teachings of the prophets, was retroactively inserted to appease polytheistic cultures.

[00:00:32]The pure straight line of one creator, one message was bent into a triangle to satisfy the political agenda of Rome.