A fundamental and felicitous Ethical-Historical Insight, extracted from Post 299.
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Westerners and Orthodox have become habitual oath-breakers since the times of Constantine.
I choose to jump here the historical period from the Julii/Augusti to Constantine when a Pagan Oath was somehow imperfect.
Writing about the causes of this curse/oath-breaking requires a separate study/analysis. Oaths have since Constantine's days become increasingly meaningless and unreliable. Our societies are riddled with MAFIAS the oath of whose members has more value than one taken by a Western Citizen.
However, in Australia and some English-speaking nations to-day one swears by God and Queen the latter having in the British System continuity ( pay heed to this fundamental please ) with King David ( or whoever David is the scriptural symbol of [ See John Romer's book " Testament ", The Bible and History, ABC] ) and the great Constantine..............tomorrow we shall do so by the President, like a banana Republic without Tradition, Honour or Creed.
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