The Arian Controversy and the Council of Nicea

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

When God became the center of all the people's lives, how could God's vice-regent on earth (as Constantine styled himself) be considered alien except to a recalcitrant pagan ? From my Catholic perspective I see him as usurping Papal authority within the Church, but even I can relate more to Constantine than to his pagan predecessors.

If I'm not wrong the President Bush has told less or more what Costantinus told: God told me directly what I have to do! Does it get him closer to the people, in the sense that the people consider him less “alienâ€