In your article on the origin of New Years day. You stated the persecution of the Jews by Pope Sylvester. Well first of all the early Christians, (who were mostly Jews) were persecuted by those of the Hebrew faith who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah. St. Paul being one of them. By the time St. John wrote the book of the Apocalypse, all of the known Synagogues in the world, were preached to. Those that were converted became churches and those who were not got referred to by St. John as the, “Synagogue of Satan.” Which by the way, in a future sense, could be applied to phony Christians. In a positive note one has to give credit to Constantine for giving all the religious their freedom to practice their faith.
God be with you, in Christ, Joseph Saraceno
Edict of Milan
In 313 Constantine and Licinius announced “that it was proper that the Christians and all others should have liberty to follow that mode of religion which to each of them appeared best”,[13] thereby granting tolerance to all religions, including Christianity. The Edict of Milan went a step further than the earlier Edict of Toleration by Galerius in 311, returning confiscated Church property. This edict made the empire officially neutral with regard to religious worship; it neither made the traditional religions illegal nor made Christianity the state religion, as occurred later with the Edict of Thessalonica. TheEdict of Milan did, however, raise the stock of Christianity within the empire and it reaffirmed the importance of religious worship to the welfare of the state.[14]
In your article on the origin of New Years day. You stated the persecution of the Jews by Pope Sylvester. Well first of all the early Christians, (who were mostly Jews) were persecuted by those of the Hebrew faith who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah. St. Paul being one of them. By the time St. John wrote the book of the Apocalypse, all of the known Synagogues in the world, were preached to. Those that were converted became churches and those who were not got referred to by St. John as the, “Synagogue of Satan.” Which by the way, in a future sense, could be applied to phony Christians. In a positive note one has to give credit to Constantine for giving all the religious their freedom to practice their faith.