Not Enough to Go Around

At left, a photograph of the Tusculum bust of Julius Caesar believed to be an accurate portrait from life. The photograph is here thanks to the generosity of Gautier Poupeau of France as taken at the Exposition at the Grand Palais. Wikicommons provides the source the the terms of use.

I like Caesar.

I was disappointed as a child to learn Roman Catholic didn't mean what I thought it meant and the poor bastard up on the cross was supposed to be the hero.

Didn't work for me.

I'm not a fan of religion. I can think of a lot of reasons to kill a man, even kill a man's child. Religion isn't one of those reasons.

I don't have characters moved by faith. I don't like illusion and I don't like my protagonists to be subject to illusion.
Deceit? Sure.

Not illusion.

Religion is a lot like hope to me. Hope is not a method and I'm first an implementation type of guy.

So was Caesar. Solved that whole problem of Gaul.

There's something to like in pragmatism - even if it gets you killed in the end.

We're all gonna die.

Even Gods die.

Meet any Ahura Mazda worshipers lately?  He had a pretty good run in his time.