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C h r y s a l i s I: M e t a m o r p h o s i s o f O d i u m

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Cultus Odium

Constantine was converted to Christianity by a vision that came to him on
the eve of the battle of Milvian Bridge: “He saw with his own eyes, up in the
sky and resting over the sun, a cross-shaped trophy formed from light, and a
text attached to it which said, ‘By this sign, conquer.’” Soon the cross would
morph from being a hated symbol of Roman brutality into the universally
recognisable logo of the Holy Roman Empire. Within a century, St. Augustine
would develop the novel idea of just war, trimming the church’s originally
pacifist message to the needs of the imperial war machine.
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Cultus Odium - Culture of Hatred, or Culture of Odium

Odium: General or widespread hatred or disgust incurred by someone
as a result of their actions. Origin - Early seventeenth century from
Latin, odium ‘hatred’, from the verb stem od- ‘hate’.
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3 “Empires prefer a baby and the cross to the adult Jesus: From Constantine to Bush, Power has needed to stifle a
revolutionary message” by Giles Fraser, December 24, 2004. theguardian.com/world/2004/
dec/24/religion.christmas Retrieved September 8, 2018.
4 Oxford University Press, en.oxforddictionaries.com, English Oxford Living Dictionaries.