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[–]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.