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talkpolitics"If the Creator had meant for people to be citizens of Rome, they'd be born with fasces in hand."
Once we come to see the Pontifex Maximus as the vicar of Caesar, it makes sense that Roman priests oppose birth control. After all, to control one's own ability to reproduce implies freedom from the fear of the blunt instrument of Roman rule. Caesar seeks to dominate all of his subjects to the point of manipulating their reproductive practice.
The other side of the revelation involves the freedom from imposing the Roman bludgeon on children. Parents who were raised in the Roman religion are wising up to the brutality of Roman rule. They don't want their children to be forced into reproducing by accident the way that they had been forced by a vicarious pseudo-father.
If you were a Catholic parent, would you obey the rules of Caesar by trying to beat your children into conformity with Roman social custom? Would you use the fasces of Caesar to bring your offspring into subjugation?
Once we come to see the Pontifex Maximus as the vicar of Caesar, it makes sense that Roman priests oppose birth control. After all, to control one's own ability to reproduce implies freedom from the fear of the blunt instrument of Roman rule. Caesar seeks to dominate all of his subjects to the point of manipulating their reproductive practice.
The other side of the revelation involves the freedom from imposing the Roman bludgeon on children. Parents who were raised in the Roman religion are wising up to the brutality of Roman rule. They don't want their children to be forced into reproducing by accident the way that they had been forced by a vicarious pseudo-father.
If you were a Catholic parent, would you obey the rules of Caesar by trying to beat your children into conformity with Roman social custom? Would you use the fasces of Caesar to bring your offspring into subjugation?
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Date: 4/12/09 01:18 (UTC)Your age...
Date: 5/12/09 20:27 (UTC)It's amazing what role the fisheries played in the colonization of America. Without that fishy practice, my ancestors may have remained on the side of the fishing pond. On the other hand, the search for an alternate route to the Spice Islands and a way to relieve merry old England of her excess population proved to be even stronger forces favoring colonization.
Re: Your age...
Date: 5/12/09 20:44 (UTC)Having grown up in the ranch country of West Texas, I admit I don't know much about fish. I prefer to whack a slab of beef off the nearest cow and barbeque it. Oddly enough, many of the large ranches in Texas were started and owned by folks from merry old England (and Scotland).
Re: Your age...
Date: 8/12/09 00:12 (UTC)