• He came over to your side yesterday and is changing the state over to your ideology. They're still going to do imperialism and slavery and everything, and nothing will fundamentally change, but it'll still be your ideology, totally.

  • They've been feeding you to lions for centuries because of your refusal to acknowledge the state's authority. Now they'll stop, unless you deviate from the state-approved version in any way, in which case they'll burn you at the stake. The state-approved version involves acknowledging the state's authority.

  • He seems oddly keen on having everyone go around flashing a symbol of the cruel and humiliating way the state brutally executed your founder.

  • You don't get a say in what the state-approved version will look like, but he'll preside over ever meeting deciding that. There won't be any more communes.

Your network of communes began as a doomsday cult eagerly waiting for the apocalypse to happen where the empire you live under would be destroyed, but that didn't happen so you've all just been kinda hanging out in secret meetings trying to support each other and survive :doomer:

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    pray to house shrine for luck every morning

    receive bountiful luck from Jupiter in exchange for my piety

    Emperor comes in

    tells me that I can't pray to Jupiter anymore

    tearing down statues

    tearing down shrines

    tearing down temples

    church and state are now two separate institutions (!?)

    emperor wants to ban gladiatorial fights (!?!?)

    at least I'm still getting my free bread.

    • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
      ·
      2 years ago

      You might want to keep that shrine to Jupiter. We've got Emperor Julian the Apostate coming up and he's going to Make Rome Pagan Again.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
        ·
        2 years ago

        During the Battle of Samarra, Julian was mortally wounded under mysterious circumstances…

        His laws tended to target wealthy and educated Christians, and his aim was not to destroy Christianity but to drive the religion out of "the governing classes of the empire—much as Chinese Buddhism was driven back into the lower classes by a revived Confucian mandarinate in 13th century China."

        He restored pagan temples which had been confiscated since Constantine's time, or simply appropriated by wealthy citizens; he repealed the stipends that Constantine had awarded to Christian bishops, and removed their other privileges, including a right to be consulted on appointments and to act as private courts.

        Mysterious circumstances claims another victim :epstein:

      • Goblinmancer [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Imagine if he finished the Third Temple before he get owned by a spear :party-sicko: