GenesisCorrupted said:

No, you’re just proving that Republicans are a cult.

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Or let us take the lengthy analogy, with a highly degrading purpose, in the ‘Bäder von Lucca.
‘A catholic cleric behaves rather like a clerk with a post in a large business house. The Church, the big firm, of which the Pope is head, gives him a fixed job and, in return, a fixed salary. He works lazily, as everyone does who is not working for his own profit, who has numerous colleagues and can easily escape notice in the bustle of a large concern. All he has at heart is the credit of the house and still more its maintenance, since if it should go bankrupt he would lose his livelihood. A protestant cleric, on the other hand, is in every case his own principal and carries on the business of religion for his own profit. He does not, like his catholic fellow-traders, carry on a wholesale business but only retail. And since he must himself manage it alone, he cannot be lazy. He must advertise his articles of faith, he must depreciate his competitors’ articles, and, genuine retailer that he is, he stands in his retail shop, full of business envy of all the great houses, and particularly of the great house in Rome, which pays the wages of so many thousands of book-keepers and packers and has its factories in all four quarters of the globe.’

Freud, Jokes &...

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The Roman historian Tacitus memorialized Seneca’s death in his historical account of those times, Annals of Imperial Rome. When Nero forbad Seneca from making a will for his extensive estate, the philosopher proclaimed his legacy would not be material things but would be the image of the life (imago vitae suae) that he had lived. Seneca espoused a virtuous way of living and a dignified way of dying. He urged others to fortify themselves with a philosophy of life. Seneca personified virtus (from Latin vir, “man,” and carrying connotations of valor, courage, and character) when faced with death. In his youth, he had struggled with suicidal ideation but realized that the effect his death would have on his family would be catastrophic and so chose to live (epigraph). In his Moral Epistles to Lucilius, Seneca writes about leaving life contentedly. He wrote that every man ought to make his life acceptable to others but that his death ought to be acceptable to himself alone. He went on to write that “the eternal law has done nothing better for us than this: it has given us one entrance to life, but many exits.”

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