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I was thinking last night... WI Marcus Aurelius ended christian persecutions and let christians worship God free and in the open? He was a philosopher deeply inspired by Plato and Socrates (Socrates teaching has a lot in common with christian teaching...And Plato's too since he was his pupil... Socrates was considered as a "Christian before Christ" by many priests and Bishops later...)
He could remain Pontifex Maximus for the Roman religion but no christian who openly decleared himself as such would be persecuted...
In OTL persecutions during his reign were kinda stopped but laws prohibiting public christian worship remained intact...
Could this lead to an early "Edict of Mediolanum"? Or Aurelius's succesors would have reversed that?
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