Who was Julian the Apostate?
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- Julian the Apostate, or Flavius Claudius Julianus (AD 332-363), was born in Constantinople in the last years of Constantine’s reign.
He was, in fact, Constantine’s nephew and the cousin of the great intervening senior emperor, Constantius II, who ruled from 337 to 361. Although raised in a Christian household, Julian abandoned his faith at age twenty. He had read widely in both Christian and pagan literature, as was the norm among Christian intellectuals of this time.
When Julian became emperor in AD 361 at age thirty, he set about dismantling the position of the church in society. He did not persecute the “Galileans,” as he called them, in the manner of earlier emperors. But he used every other available means. He flushed Christians out of his imperial court, rescinded the tax exemptions of Constantine, banned Christian academics from teaching (more on that in a moment), and published tracts ridiculing them. He also did everything he could to revive the glories of the old religion, building and refurbishing temples, and sponsoring pagan priests in various cities.
On 26 June 363, as his armies progressed toward their goal of invading Persia in the east, he was hit by an arrow and died later that evening. His sudden death signaled the end of the campaign to revive paganism and to send Christianity back into obscurity. Julian’s immediate successor was his own general, Jovian. He died the following year (AD 364), apparently overcome by the fumes of his charcoal stove, but not before officially reversing Julian’s anti-Christian policies.
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This deserves WAY more views than it has, Julian the Apostate is one of my favorite Emperors and this short video is extremely educational. Thank you
No distracting background music please.
I'm sure that you're aware that Ammianus Marcellinus, a pagan Roman historian who knew Julian well, doesn't support that "Galilean, thou hast conquered!" line. The pagan version is that Julian discussed philosophy with his friends until he died of his injuries. That certainly seems plausible considering Julian's interests, albeit also idealized. Of the two versions, I do think the pagan version is most likely, although perhaps neither is true.
@NEAR TERM EXTINCTION - HUMAN Thank you for your input, random schizophrenic person.
I very much enjoyed this content, as people like Julian the Apostate and the Late Antiquity transition from Paganism to Christianity are one of times I am most curious about
However, i find it next to impossible to understand what you are saying because the background music you have chosen is far too loud and distracting for me to understand you without careful fatiguing attention, to the point where i gave up and resorted to subtitles
The music takes away much more than it adds from an otherwise stellar bit of educational content
Hm, have you tried watching the video in 2x? It sounds good to be and the video gets done quicker. Probably because I’m using headphones though is the reason why it sounds good.
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There churches equaled those like the pagan temples. There bidhops dresses like imperial aristocracy
The built churches in rich fashion equal to the pagan style
Man shoulda just went with promoting religious tolerance.
Truth is truth and lies are lies. People should not be forced to accept the truth if they don't want to but still truth is truth
"Thou oh Galilean hath won"
Philadelphians 2:10;11 is
the foundation for this great declaration, heralding the victorious Galilean; Jesus Christ. "Every knee shall bow every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord"
Except the only real contemporary historian who wrote about Julian and who was familiar with him personally doesn't offer any proof that Julian ever said this. And Ammianus Marcellinus was actually with Julian during his ill-fated final campaign in Persia and witnessed his death. This claim about Julian's final words only appears in works by church apologists later.
@@julianhermanubis6800 they don't care. doesn't fit the christian triumphalist message of this video.
@@tonguemybumbIt's disappointing to me, because it's not like Ammianus Marcellinus is an obscure writer or one whose work is questionable, like the "Historia Augusta." He's probably one of the fairest ancient historians in his assessments also. Quoting that "Galilean, thou hast conquered!" line as if it is a given fact is not much different than taking Pliny's story about the headless men of Africa seriously. It's clearly a legend.
@@julianhermanubis6800 John Dickson is a smart person he should know better. Christians lately (especially John Dickson) love this idea that christians invented charity. and they love quoting the emperor Julian disliking this subversive tactic to convert pagans to christianity.
Ohh just the false accusation of calling Christians atheist was mind blowing, but he found out after the stray arrow that false Roman gods never existed, but the One true living God is who he encountered after his demise
None of us have any conclusive empirical proof whether Julian was right or wrong. He's very much dead, but, as for what lies beyond, neither you nor I have ever spoken to anyone who's made that journey. I am sure you don't believe in seances or necromancy so I don't know how you'd have a credible first-hand interview. (-: And, if you're denying someone else's gods, they would consider you an atheist from their point of view so he wasn't wrong on that point.
@@julianhermanubis6800 I think you just love him because he shares your name, lets be honest. To touch on your other comments, I could have spoken to numerous people that have had an NDE experience, or even myself but I havent myself & as far as myself or Christians being called an atheist, as per the definition it could possibly go either way. A person who disbelieves or lacks belief in God or gods, hence i guess eventhough its silly anyone that doesnt believe in any certain god could be called that, but doesnt tend to hold much water
@@J-PLeigh8409 I have read a few books on NDEs out of curiosity, including those by Raymond Moody and P.M.H. Atwater, but I never found any evidence that was very convincing and that couldn't be explained by more prosaic means. Besides, most people who do believe strongly in an afterlife don't base such belief on books about NDEs or personal NDEs but rather on religious faith. That's fine for them, but, if you don't share that faith, there's little empirical proof. If I had the ghost of Julian appear before me tonight and give testimony as to the proofs of the Christian religion--and I didn't appear to have slipped into schizophrenia---it would go a long way towards my accepting such. Yes, I do understand some Latin before you ask, although I think he preferred Greek as a language. But I'm not holding my breath. And, yes, he was technically right: Christians are atheists when it comes to other gods besides their own. Only a definition hopelessly biased towards Abrahamic faiths would read otherwise.
@@julianhermanubis6800 the God of Christendom is the only God that even comes close to lining up w/ truth & I believe that truth is obvious unless ones conscience is seared especially to morality, If grace, love, mercy, compassion, holiness, righteousness doesn't matter whether in a world view (which it hardly does) & of course religious then no thank you, it doesnt hold water & will crumble like a house of cards. Holy scripture & the church the body of Christ, attest to the Creator, the giver of life, besides all we see around us, & even to the fine tuned Universe that He upholds by the word of His power. Faith in Christ as the truth or even the cry of your soul w/in, reveals our Maker. Ive listened to hundreds of NDE's & they all seem to speak of a God of unfathomable love, the light, as in scripture the Father of lights, & we hold to per scripture & tradition the Godhead Father, Son, Holy Spirit 1 in essence. We shouldnt write these things off that our soul longs for & the experiences of so many cant be thrown out or said the brain is dying
@@J-PLeigh8409 That's very poetic language, but it's not empirical proof of anything.
Julian the Great.
God's Word will always come to pass no matter how many enraged heathens scream from the river to the sea.
Check yourself into a crazy house
I made a little dark age video about me check it out 😉
Extremely biased video.
Yup
And very ill-informed facts wise