Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor recently lost all his royal titles his titles, plus his home, resulting from scandal related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Many asked why it took so long. But most people across history would instead have been amazed that it happened at all. How can a royal prince be punished for sexual exploitation? Is that not what the powerful do?
In his book, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, Tom Holland illustrates how the example of Jesus as Savior turned voluntary innocent victim gradually but inexorably elevated across centuries those whom the ancient world disdained. Classical antiquity produced magnificent philosophy and architecture. But the strong incontestably exploited the weak. No rich Roman or Greek ever lost status by exploiting, or enslaving, anybody.
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