There’s a terrific book series called “English Grammar For Students of [Language]” that exploits this fact nicely

It’s true!

To answer your question, in a period when imperial authority often wavered between popular theological disputes (see also the iconoclastic controversy), it behooved Constantine to support doctrinal unity, even before his own baptism, because that is what Jesus commands of us in John and elsewhere.

“First Council of Nicaea” alludes to “a circle of Christian violence, and of Christian resistance couched in terms of martyrdom,” citing some interesting work by Michael Gaddis, which merits some further investigation.

This was the most rigorous citation on the first few pages of Google (not verifiable on Google Books; no library because holiday). Wikipedia makes no mention of rape, kidnapping, or murder in “Arianism,” “Arian controversy,” or the relevant bit of “Sectarian violence among Christians.”

(This is why, per your post, I only have the intelligence of half a human!)

I’d love to know about that documentation. I know about the administrative crackdowns, but I don’t know about any widespread public anti-Arian violence resulting from the council.

What genocides do you attribute to First Nicaea?

I am whatever on Douthat but his old quip about “wait until you see the post-religious right” comes up a lot

It was a word in the mid-13th century (well, “vert,” but yes) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer_i...

*begetting

Annoyingly it’s “pierog.”

No website but looks authoritative maps.app.goo.gl/jvJdnMHCqhcy...

You wrote this when Fox was pretty much exactly as old as my kid is now

Seconding that 2007’s “The Mormons” doesn’t have the Ken Burns pizzazz but is fairly rigorous, surprising, and evenhanded

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This translation is great (and a lot more attention-grabbing than the one on Catena). Do you know where it’s from?

Good use of a postage stamp imo