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There was no decree for temple demolitions in the empire in that year, and none would be issued until 435. Theodosius I ordered the destruction of the Serapeum only after it had been used as a hideout by a band of Neoplatonist thugs who tortured and murdered Christians https://www.academia.edu/30084569/Religious_Violence_in_Late_Antique_Egypt_Reconsidered_The_Cases_of_Alexandria_Panopolis_and_Philae https://historyforatheists.com/2017/11/review-catherine-nixey-the-darkening-age/
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