Keeping a Lid on Caesar

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“If there is no God above Caesar, then how do we keep Caesar from declaring himself god? Not only so, but because as god he answers to no one, this means there is no such thing as ethics. There is no authority over him to which he must defer. And if that is the case, then everybody under him must defer to him—and he could well be an erratic or ill-tempered or insane god with bad digestion. And does anybody really want a god with a bad temper who is capable of toothaches or migraines?”

Mere Christendom, p. 42