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In 325 A.d., The Roman Emperor Constantine Decided To Unify Rome Under A Single Religion ... Historians Still Marvel At The Brilliance With Which Constantine Converted The Sun-worshipping Pagans To Christianity. By Fusing Pagan Symbols, Dates, And Rituals Into The Growing Christian Tradition, He Created A Kind Of Hybrid Religion That Was Acceptable To Both Parties.

Writing An Informative Yet Compact Thriller Is A Lot Like Making Maple Sugar Candy. You Have To Tap Hundreds Of Trees - Boil Vats And Vats Of Raw Sap - Evaporate The Water - And Keep Boiling Until You've Distilled A Tiny Nugget That Encapsulates The Essence.

Faith Is A Continuum, And We Each Fall On That Line Where We May. By Attempting To Rigidly Classify Ethereal Concepts Like Faith, We End Up Debating Semantics To The Point Where We Entirely Miss The Obvious - That Is, That We Are All Trying To Decipher Life's Big Mysteries, And We're Each Following Our Own Paths Of Enlightenment.

If You Ask Three People What It Means To Be Christian, You Will Get Three Different Answers. Some Feel Being Baptized Is Sufficient. Others Feel You Must Accept The Bible As Immutable Historical Fact. Still Others Require A Belief That All Those Who Do Not Accept Christ As Their Personal Savior Are Doomed To Hell.

Outside, In The Newly Fallen Darkness, The World Had Been Transformed. The Sky Had Become A Glistening Tapestry Of Stars.