"Only by understanding Antinous as a legitimately feared rival cult to primitive Christianity, can we explain how this Man-God extracted a testimony of his supposed godlike power from a Church Father."
i see your handle is Hiram ? are you a son of the Widow looking to the East ?
That's interesting. He's a kind of gay Jesus. I have always thought that Jesus was portrayed throughout history as a gay guy on a cross. Maybe that's because the painters were gay.