On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
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> 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*).
>
None of which is inconsistent with the fact that Caesar was as much of
an atheist as Epicurus.
> 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.