DYK #Theodosius’ call to execute pagans in 381 expanded #EmperorConstantine's decree at Nicea in 325? It made sex outside marriage/#fornication a crime, all non-Catholics homeless & seized their properties for bishops. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.
Early Christians made saints of #EmperorContstantine & Emperor #Theodosius for stamping out pagans and all other opposition to the “#OneTrueChurch”, including #queers. #TrumpKKKristians are trying to do the same today.
#SCOTUSisTooCatholic
Forcing all to become Catholic, #Theodosius made it criminal to indulge in sodomy—ejaculating from any sex other than coitus in marriage. So #AnalSex, #BirthControl, #OralSex, #QueerSex, #SoloSex, & #zoophilia, as well as paganism, became outlawed. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Emperor #Theodosius made #Catholicism the state religion in 381, 56 years after Constantine exempted Catholic bishops from taxes? This made it illegal for anyone to belong to any other religion & forbade—on pain of death—worship at pagan shrines, including #OlympicGames.
Bust of Theodosius
#Roman Emperor #Theodosius I, also called Theodosius the Great, died #OTD in AD 395. He was born in 347 and reigned from 379. During his reign, he was key in establishing orthodox Nicene Christianity as the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
#Theodosius not only made Catholicism the state religion, he declared that all other beliefs were illegal & deserving of enslavement, homeless, or death. Maybe that's why lots of people converted. Such a saint!
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Early Christians made saints of #EmperorContstantine & Emperor #Theodosius for stamping out pagans and all other opposition to the “#OneTrueChurch” including #queers. #TrumpKKKristians are trying to do the same today.
#SCOTUSisTooCatholic
Forcing all to become Catholic, #Theodosius made it criminal to indulge in sodomy—ejaculating from any sex other than coitus in marriage. So #AnalSex, #BirthControl, #OralSex, #QueerSex, #SoloSex, & #zoophilia, as well as paganism, became outlawed. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Emperor #Theodosius made #Catholicism the state religion in 381, 56 years after Constantine exempted Catholic bishops from taxes? This made it illegal for anyone to belong to any other religion & forbade—on pain of death—worship at pagan shrines, including #OlympicGames.
Image of a representation of the walls of Constantinople and a head of Theodosius
Image of a representation of the walls of Constantinople and a head of Theodosius
A powerful earthquake struck #Constantinople on 6th #November AD447, destroying 57 towers of the famous walls. The City was threatened with disease in the aftermath. This was during the reign of #Theodosius II & in a major feat of engineering the walls were rebuilt in 60 days.
#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #romanempireandthesilkroutes ##mclaughlin #rome #roman #theodosius #emperor #arcadius #succession #byzantium #goth #germanic #warlords
Forcing all to become Catholic, #Theodosius made it criminal to indulge in sodomy—ejaculating from any sex other than coitus in marriage. So #AnalSex, #BirthControl, #OralSex, #QueerSex, #SoloSex, & #zoophilia, as well as paganism, became outlawed. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Emperor #Theodosius made #Catholicism the state religion in 381, 56 years after Constantine exempted Catholic bishops from taxes? This made it illegal for anyone to belong to any other religion & forbade—on pain of death—worship at pagan shrines, including #OlympicGames.
Ad Fluvium Frigidum, reenactment event 2025, Ajdovscina; credits: https://www.facebook.com/adfluviumfrigidum/mentions/
#OTD The Battle of the #Frigidus, also called the Battle of the Frigid River, was fought on 5th and 6th September 394 between the armies of the Roman Emperor #Theodosius the Great and the rebel Augustus Eugenius, in the Vipacco Valley, where the Frigidus River is thought to be found. (Slovenia)
DYK (saint) #Theodosius declared #Catholicism to be the #StateReligion in 367, made it against the law for anyone to belong to any other religion, & forbade, again—on pain of death, any worship at #pagan shrines. Not a nice guy. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
When Emperor #Theodosius made Catholicism the state religion in 381, he also made it illegal for anyone to belong to any other religion & forbade worship at pagan shrines, including #OlympicGames — on pain of death! Games were not revived until 1896.
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Early Christians made saints of #EmperorContstantine & Emperor #Theodosius for stamping out pagans and all other opposition to the “#OneTrueChurch”. #TrumpKKKristians are trying to do the same today.
#SCOTUSisTooCatholic
Forcing all to become Catholic, #Theodosius made it criminal to indulge in sodomy—ejaculating from any sex other than coitus in marriage. So #AnalSex, #BirthControl, #OralSex, #QueerSex, #SoloSex, & #zoophilia, as well as paganism, became outlawed. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Emperor #Theodosius made #Catholicism the state religion in 381, 56 years after Constantine exempted Catholic bishops from taxes? This made it illegal for anyone to belong to any other religion & forbade—on pain of death—worship at pagan shrines, including #OlympicGames.
But by 381 #Theodosius declared #Catholicism the state religion & made it illegal for anyone to belong to any other religion. He forbade—on pain of death—any worship at pagan shrines. He also made it criminal to indulge in #sodomy. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK #EmperorConstantine quickly imposed our #AgeOfIntolerance? He made "the lawful & most holy Catholic church" the 1st state religion & condemned those refusing to convert as homeless slaves, paving the way for #Theodosius to threaten them w/death. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Christian ideas of #masculinity became very rigid very soon? Emperor #Theodosius (d.395) promised to rid the empire “of the poison of shameful effeminacy”. He vowed to consign all “passive” men to “avenging flames in sight of the people”! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HappyPride #QueerHistory
At 4thC’s end, Emperor #Theodosius invoked the death penalty for selling boys & men into #SexWork & outlawed #QueerSex as well as sex or marriage w/eunuchs. But the collection of taxes on same-sex sex work went on for another 200 years.
#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #pagans #o'donnell #eugenius #theodosius #italy #jupiter #hercules #paganism #christianity #earlychristianity #polytheism #rome #roman #emperor
DYK Emperor #Theodosius declared Catholicism the state religion in 381 & made it illegal to belong to any other religion? He forbade—on pain of death—any worship at pagan shrines. Eugenius consorted w/pagans, so an early Christian war was launched. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
Early Christians made saints of #EmperorContstantine & Emperor #Theodosius for stamping out pagans and all other opposition to the “#OneTrueChurch”. #TrumpKKKristians are trying to do the same today.
#SCOTUSisTooCatholic
Forcing all to become Catholic, #Theodosius made it criminal to indulge in sodomy—ejaculating from any sex other than coitus in marriage. So #AnalSex, #BirthControl, #OralSex, #QueerSex, #SoloSex, & #zoophilia, as well as paganism, became outlawed. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Emperor #Theodosius made #Catholicism the state religion in 381, 56 years after Constantine exempted Catholic bishops from taxes? This made it illegal for anyone to belong to any other religion & forbade—on pain of death—worship at pagan shrines, including #OlympicGames.
