Roman imperial cult
208Cynic, Epic, Stoic, Skeptic
21 Oct 2024
22:34¶ 55
“We’ll see as we move forward in time that the emperor for Rome becomes the focus. In him deity is incarnate. Rome was content…”
23:14¶ 58
“Tough, get over it. You’re not doing that because the peace of the empire comes first, and you swore that Caesar is lord and…”
46:23¶ 120
“Virgil stated them in the Aeneid, but people didn’t go around praising the westward course of empire and Rome as the new Messiah. They…”
103Rebellion and Witchcraft
31 Jan 2022
40:51¶ 154
“In the extreme forms we find things like Naziism or Stalinism or Maoism or emperor worship in the Roman empire, which I believe is…”
17Mythmaking
26 Apr 2020
28:29¶ 79
“Rome discovered this one real fast, as did the Church. Rome would have been very happy to let Christians have their religion, practice it…”
29:49¶ 82
“It’s worth mentioning the temptation to the ancient church in Rome was functionally no different than Satan’s final temptation to Christ. “I won’t even…”
4Trinity (part 1)
26 Jan 2020
23:04¶ 79
“As the Christians confronted Rome, their first creed was simply “Jesus is Lord” – Iesus est dominum – and that meant something in that…”
23:28¶ 80
“You can worship whoever you want. God has many faces and many manifestations, but the one that’s central for social purposes is Caesar himself,…”
23:58¶ 81
“If the Christians hadn’t believed that Jesus was God, they could simply have said, “Oh wait, wait. We didn’t mean that. That’s so extreme!…”