Constantine's Conversion To Christianity

Humans are social animals and they tend to act in manner of the majority just because they want to fit in. Having lived as a community for over thousands of years, Humans have gradually but constantly developed themselves toward collective behaviors. All the acts were derived from beliefs that had risen in specific periods or passed along the generations. However, because of the improvement of philosophy, logical mindset had been applied. Not only faiths were used to make decisions but so were reasons. In the age of early Christianity, the religion of Jesus was forbidden and illegal for many years. Then, Emperor Constantine just simply turned to Christian and made it official. He claimed that he saw a vision that turned his life around. In contrast, his conversion gained him absolute political power. Until these days, it is still debatable whether Constantine's conversion to Christianity was due to political reason or religious one.
His father, the future emperor Constantius, was that time a junior army officer and it was claimed that Constantine's mother, Helena, was the daughter of an inn keeper. When the troops at York hailed Constantine as emperor, he was already in his thirties with a distinguished military career behind him. With all the support of York army, Constantine entered into the civil war as a usurper. Around that time, Severus had already been chosen to succeed Constantius and was the legitimate emperor. However, the death of Constantius had spawned another usurper linked to the imperial family but located in Rome named Maxentius. Severus marched against Maxentius but his army deserted him and he was forced to surrender. Soon after he took his own life leaving the field open for Constantine to move against Maxentius, who was busy seducing the wives of leading senators. In AD312, Constantine moved against Maxentius and this combat completely changed the