Catholic church admits that a telescope named LUCIFER (later shortened to LUCI) is at the Vatican outpost in Arizona and that they have access to it. They deny "owning" it.... but they funded it. They used a telescope named LUCIFER, which is the name of God's adversary!

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[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Starting with Constantine (whose mother, 'a woman of low social standing', was a follower of the cult) it was soon promoted by Roman Emperors. It offered justification for the kind of dictatorial system of government which they liked, with an absolute monarch/'Lord'/dictator-deity ruling the Universe, with no checks nor balances from other perspectives/Gods. Roman emperors are the ones that imposed it upon the empire. Had it not infected Roman Emperors, that cult, and the distasteful self-serving tribal bullshit that went with it, would have remained obscure ... probably for the better.

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So, if I understand you correctly, Constantine, rather than promoting a cult of emperor worship like earlier emperors, instead chose to use a cult that claims there are moral values that not even an emperor can disobey? This he saw as a brilliant idea to control the people in the empire?

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

'If', you don't, nor do you seem to be trying to. So, where to begin? I suggest reading Plato's Euthyphro as a start, perhaps.

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Then explain it because I don't know how to interpret it without you either calling him or his mother low IQ.

For example, if he simply believed things because his mother says so, it does not reflect well on him.

If he didn't believe, calling himself a god like other Roman emperors would give him more absolute power than a cult that says someone else is king and not even the emperor can disobey. This is, for example, why Christianity is persecuted in China: the idea that state is not to be obeyed when the laws are evil.