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Crash Course World History
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Crash Course World History is a YouTube video series by John Green that surveys human history from early civilizations through the modern era in short, animated lectures. It is one of several Crash Course playlists covering many subjects.
Commenters describe it as highly recommended for learning history in an entertaining way and say its content is generally good.
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Julius Caesar was the first historical Roman deified as a god, and Augustus promoted himself as a son of god, partly or mostly for political reasons.
Christ denied the prevailing notion of the day that Julius Caesar is a god (and Augustus is a son of god). Therefore, he is an anti-establishment, and an atheist or unbeliever in the political realm. Thiel refers to this as 'political atheism'.
In his last sentence, he mentioned that libertarianism is related to 'political atheism', which was Christ's view of the political order of the day.
The commonality I make out of his reasoning is that both Christianity in those days and current-day libertarianism are anti-establishment.
A very interesting shift in frame of reference. And you can point out that, politically, some Christian beliefs have in practice become part of the establishment today, which sort of contradicts his point. What do you think?
Please correct me if I'm wrong. My scant knowledge of the Roman era is mostly from Crash Course [1] (highly recommended for learning in an entertaining way, and I believe most of the contents are good too) and a bit from Wikipedia [2].
[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/crash-course1/cr...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar#Deification
Several YouTubers have channels with similar goals in mind.
Not exactly the same but the production value and cartoon visuals makes the complicated information easier to understand.
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q
Crash Course World History https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 (check out all the Crash Course playlists, there's more than history)
SciShow https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow/videos
etc.