OPINION: “A Certain Suspicion of the Divine”: Why Modern Americans (Especially Christians) Should Read the Romans Cicero and Seneca

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Sic cum inferiore vivas quemadmodum tecum superiorem velis vivere (Thus you should live with your inferior just as you would wish your superior to live with you).” No, this is not a quote from the Gospels—it is not even a quote from a Christian. This was penned by a former advisor to the infamous Nero around 65 A.D., the year that …