Reading Friedrich Hayek, I realize now I have to try to understand ancient Rome's economics and politics to get a grasp on the slave empire mentality of Rome. This may assist me in understanding the residue of such slave empire mentality in the present day USA.
One thing immediately jumps out: the strict hierarchy of gods, emperors, patricians, plebians, clients, and slaves. There was a hierarchical system, a caste system, symbolically and physically.
This leads us to how Christianity was enslaved by the Empire which it thought it had conquered. For in its inception, Christianity was a brotherhood of equals with their Teacher, the Teacher differing from the rest of the brotherhood in knowledge and spiritual progress. This community by and by passed into the rigid hierarchy so typical of Rome.
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