Well, who gets really into Julian the Apostate, like when Gore Vidal wrote his book about him (Pontius Pilate isn't really important outside of the Christians' own stories about him, which tend to end with him becoming a Christian)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Ok, fair. And there is a pretty broad "Rome fell because it became Christian" take out there in Western historiography, usually lauding the pagans.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Cybren and
Yeah it's funny because we kind of associate being really into Roman paganism with witchy New Age feminism etc. today but that's a hugely whitewashed image of what it was actually like and what people nostalgic for it historically were like
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I read a review of Vidal's Julian where the reviewer was like "Okay, but how would a modern world based on the pre-Christian Roman Empire be *better* than the one we have Like actually less sexist, racist, imperialist, in favor of slavery-based economics"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
"As obnoxious as I think the Jesus people are, the biggest difference I can see is we'd be cutting open a lot more animals to look at their entrails, instead of wastefully throwing the entrails away to make dog food"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
We all coulda gotten super into Mithras, though.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Honestly I would have traded Jesus in for Glycon There's, I think, something kind of endearing about worshipping a snake puppet
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @mssilverstein and
Would you want to be in a religion with just you and Alan Moore
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
It would probably get my writing seen by more people
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @mssilverstein and
It means you have to have sex with Alan Moore
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I mean you know the edgelord thing about Alan Moore deciding he's a neo-Glyconian is the founder of the cult was accused of making it up just to get laid Like Glycon was empowered to heal women's infertility but you had to fuck the high priest
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
how much more of an audience do I gain if I fuck Alan Moore
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
he does share your hatred of harry potter
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