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Jonathan Bi - What’s The Problem With Paganism? Ep.91
Good Faith Effort
Is There a Dual Face in the Roman Imperium?
Many of the Greek gods, ones I'm more familiar with, have a dual face. Zeus is sometimes painted as sweet as honey and sometimes he hurls lightning bolts for no reason. The god that really embodies this, the Roman god Janus, right, who literally has sort of two faces. And so if you're a drug, the pagan sacred is literally just power and it's not contradictory. They can be good or evil because that's not what defines them. It's powerful powerless. That's dominant sort of dimension. But Gerard was clearly saying, guys, not a deity, right? You were projecting that deification upon him. He wasn't all to blame and he
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