(October 6, 2015 at 10:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: [...]All we can tell from excavating the various Mithraeums which have been found is that the wall paintings stress the killing of the celestial bull by Mithras. You gotta admit....that's something. Beats getting your fucking ass nailed to a cross.
Unless you're a Roman Caesar, in which case as far as role models for the unruly masses go, you can't beat the one who's only achievement - real or fictional - was getting killed by the authorities, without even putting up a fight.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw