(August 2, 2018 at 10:43 am)Kit Wrote: We probably lie to ourselves more than anything else.
Humans do. It sounds harsh to believers to call their hero a dictator, but I didn't create that word. It was around long before I was born.
Their book uses the words King, Kingdom, and Lord. Why? Because that is what humans lived under in antiquity, ruling families, and your duty wasn't to facts back then, but to loyalty to your local tribe.
Even in the polytheism of Ancient Rome and Greece, which we falsely consider the seat of modern democracy, were STILL ruled by ruling families.
Both polytheists and monotheists back then lived under ruling families. One can only argue, with any nation's history, in antiquity, that some ruling families were more cruel or less cruel, but they were still the top power not subject to checks on power.
