# Why did the Jesus sect become Christianity?

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 22, 1999, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-jesus-sect-become-christianity/5625 "1999-12-22T19:25:00Z")
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JoltSucker wrote:

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> Was it when Emperor Constantine declared Christianity to be the state religion (and in my opinion, corrupted it)?

Constantine did not declare Christianity to be the official religion of Rome, although he was the first Christian emperor of Rome.

Christianity did not become the official religion of Rome until the reign of emperor Justinian.

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The truth, as always, is more complicated than that.

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