When the pantheon poobahs waved their hands and mumbled their mumbo jumbo, and then told the gathered Romans to go outside at dusk and look to the west and see the gods Venus and Mars and Jupiter, and then in a few weeks had cavorted into a different pattern across the sky, those Romans BELIEVED.
Throw in a lunar eclipse once in a while (which they could accurately predict in those days), experience the winds blowing, the crack of thunder and you had a religion that was demonstrably FACT.
At least as far as they could tell.
Throw in a lunar eclipse once in a while (which they could accurately predict in those days), experience the winds blowing, the crack of thunder and you had a religion that was demonstrably FACT.
At least as far as they could tell.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.