Can anyone recognize this event in history where the church lied about a document?

Question

Okay, I'm trying to look for a document that the church forged. I don't know anything about it but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with Constantine (either the document was named after him or forged with his signature).

I'm sorry I don't have any other information. It's killing me to remember this.

Answer 1

I don't know if this is going to help you or not, but at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. it was decided by committee that Jesus was indeed "divine", that is, "God". Anyone who was carrying the "old version" of the Bible around after that was killed immediately on the spot. Constantine murdered his own son and had his wife drowned in boiling oil - Christians seem to think he was a hero for changing the Roman Empire's state religion to Christianity, but he never converted to it, and being a murderer of members of his own family I don't see him as a hero at all.

Answer 2

Why?  So you can assault Christianity?

Answer 3

You mean the Donation of Constantine - that stated that when Constantine shifted the capital to Constantinople, he gave Italy to the church.

It was exposed as a fraud in the 15th century.  When they told the pope, he had a good laugh.

Google "Donation of Constantine".

Answer 4

Are you talking about the house arrest of Galileo Galilei in 1620? The church did not LIE about the incident, they merely SUPPRESSED the document and locked it in a safe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Gal...