Controversial Opinion: Romans (Europeans) Were Gods
The roman emperors were promoted as gods since gods were all group’s (peoples) proxies for the group, and devotion to the gods was a devotion to the anthropomorphization of the people: it was the expression of loyalty. The roman demand was for loyalty to the empire, and the roman way of life, that so man wished to join – just as people wish to join the european way of life yet again today. But at some point lesser peoples want the benefits of roman-european way of life without the demand for loyalty in exchange. This is for very simple reasons: they and their traditional methods are unable to compete for income, sexual, social, and political status – so they refuse loyalty and undermine that civilization despite wanting its benefits.
Truth is – comparatively?
The Romans were gods.