I was astonished at what I just read at Singing in the Reign about Napoleon’s Proof for the Divinity of Jesus. I’m not too sure about the proof. But what astonished me was to find that this man who is regarded as the epitome of the proud and ungodly emperor, the man who crowned himself as emperor to avoid submitting to the pope, actually wrote, admittedly in his years in exile in St Helena, thoughts like this:
Christ … kindles the flame of love which causes one’s self-love to die, and triumphs over every other love. Why should we not recognize in this miracle of love the eternal Word which created the world? The other founders of religions had not the least conception of this mystic love which forms the essence of Christianity.
I have filled multitudes with such passionate devotion that they went to death for me. But God forbid that I should compare the enthusiasm of my soldiers with Christian love.
Here’s another blurb from Napoleon on Jesus:
“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.”
I’ve found it on multiple places on the web, though I’m not exactly sure where it originated from…almost makes me think it’s somewhat of a paraphrase of things that he said on the link that you gave us.