The more we learn about Nero the more we see the similarity with Obama.
We may one day see an American president engaging in a gay marriage, preferably in his second term. America will become a global laughing stock, and that will be the end of America as a nation. By then, practicing traditional Christianity will be a crime.
Do you mean Emperor Nero or “Emperor Nero” ?
My very liberal world history teacher once taught me that the Roman empire declined, in part, because of rampant homosexuality.
Just three decades ago, people of all political persuasions agreed that is was a perversion.
We have one already. Mooch is a dude.
Another Roman Emperor who engaged in a public same sex marriage was Elagabalus:
http://www.fgfbooks.com/Turner-Craig/2013/Turner130323.html
“.....Another emperor who “married” men was Elagabalus, who ascended the throne in A.D. 218 after a substantial bribe was offered by his powerful grandmother(.....)The emperor’s first “husband” was a blond slave named Hierocles. Elagabalus was described as being “delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles.” In addition to playing sado-masochistic games with Hierocles, Elagabalus pretended to be a prostitute out in public, offering himself naked to random pedestrians in the palace or prostituting himself in the brothels and taverns of Rome.
The Augustan History states, “He set aside a room in the palace and there committed his indecencies, always standing nude at the door of the room, as the harlots do, and shaking the curtain which hung from gold rings, while in a soft and melting voiced he solicited passers-by.”....”
I do not care how liberal you may be. How can you not read the behavior of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus, and not see Satanic influence. What if this happened to America in the future? The Lincoln Bedroom could become a brothel.
America is already a global laughing stock
I’ve got bad news for you - the USA is already dead. What is happening now is that the corpse is starting to smell.
Well, that puts him one up on Obama.
Yeah, that sounds great. Nero did it, so its okay for us did it. Let’s also cut off our ears because Van Gogh cut off his. Let’s attack the ocean because Caligula did. Who actually thinks that Nero’s actions are a reason for a civilization to take up vile practices? This is like saying the because the Aztecs sacrificed people, so must also start sacrificing people. At least the sacrifice thing made sense at a certain level.
It could be a slow death, with something else landing the fatal blow.
Rome survived Nero by more than 300 years.
It's widely believed it was the dilution of their coinage that eventually brought Rome down.
In today's America, mentioning this could be a hate crime unless you immediately added not that there's anything wrong with that!
Not only Tacitus but Suetonius alludes tot he same in Lives of the Twelve Caesars:
Nero not only abused freeborn boys, and seduced married women, but also forced the Vestal Virgin Rubria. He virtually married the freedwoman Acte, after bribing some ex-consuls to perjure themselves and swear she was of royal birth.
He tried to turn the boy Sporus into a woman by castration, wed him in the usual manner, including bridal veil and dowry, took him off to the Palace attended by a vast crowd, and proceeded to treat him as his wife. That led to a joke still going the rounds, to the effect that the world would have been a better place if Nero’s father Domitius had married that sort of wife.
Nero took Sporus, decked out in an Empress’s regalia, to all the Greek assizes and markets in his litter, and later through the Sigillaria quarter at Rome, kissing him fondly now and then.
He harboured a notorious passion for his own mother, but was prevented from consummating it by the actions of her enemies who feared the proud and headstrong woman would acquire too great an influence. His desire was more apparent after he found a new courtesan who was the very image of Agrippina, for his harem. Some say his incestuous relations with his mother were proven before then, by the stains on his clothing whenever he had accompanied her in her litter.
Book Six: XXIX His Erotic Practices
He debased himself sexually to the extent that, after exploiting every aspect of his body, he invented an erotic game whereby he was loosed from a cage dressed in a wild animal’s pelt, attacked the private parts of men and women bound to stakes, and when excited enough was ‘dispatched’ by his freedman Doryphorus. He even became Doryphorus’s bride, as Sporus was his, and on the wedding night imitated the moans and tears of a virgin being deflowered.
I have been told, more than once, of his unshakeable belief that no man was physically pure and chaste, but that most concealed their vices and veiled them cunningly. He therefore pardoned every other fault in those who confessed to their perversions.”
The more we learn about Nero the more we see the similarity with Obama.
Sounds like a real love triangle ...
Emperor Nero IS Caliph Zero!
Even though emperors were known to be homosexual, it was still considered a vice to most Romans. Emperors like Nero and Elagabulus and Caligula flaunted their bisexuality/homosexuality as a way of rubbing the people’s nose in the fact that emperors were above petty human laws.
FYI, no matter the particulars, Nero and his "bride groom" engaged in sodomy, not coitus. Coitus is a very special kind of sex that can only take place with a man and woman. You know, normal sex.
So all those kids who said trignometry is gay were right??