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I definitely fall into the 'B' category I'm afraid. bnefore Constantines patronage, christianity was a series of small unconnected cults of varying credibility. With his victory in the civil war and accession to domination of the empire, he needed something to put his crumbling nation back together again, and since Christianity had a social function that was more authoritarian than pagan worship, his patronage had a useful civic function - exactly as he intended.