Lockdowns, Muzzles and Vaccine Mandates Are a Pagan Ritual
Marko Marjanović
Unless everyone participates they won't work. As before recalcitrants will be thrown to the lions
You may have been taught in elementary school that Rome persecuted Early Christians because they refused to acknowledge the divinity of Roman emperors. This isn’t quite true. The official state-augmented Roman religion did not hold up Emperors as gods but merely as beings who had the potential to ascend among them and who had already made a very small part of that journey.
The Christian rejection of the divine spirit of the Emperors was an irritant, but it wasn’t the most important cause of their persecution.
Their more important transgression – one that saw them run afoul not just of the state apparatus but of the wider society – is that they refused to participate in the offerings to the traditional gods.
According to the religious feeling of the day, to please the gods everyone had to participate. If just a small part of the society abstained that risked turning the gods against the entire community. In other words, unless everyone sacrificed the sacrifice wouldn’t work. You may guess how that conviction inevitably came to be.