On Mar 28, 2010, at 5:27 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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> I picked up a copy. It's dedicated to Giordano Bruno [who was no
> atheist!]...He was raised Catholic, considered becoming a priest...
It is amusing that Parenti's previous book was devoted to another of his heroes, Gaius Julius Caesar--who was not only a priest (*flamen dialis*, until Sulla allowed him to quit that unbearable job), not only the High Priest (*pontifex maximus*) of the Republic, but even, ultimately, a God (acclaimed as such by the *vox populi* and the *vox cometae*).
Shane Mage
> Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there are
> appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only
> offering acceptable is silence.