Church of the Great Caesar

The **Church of the Great Caesar** is a the name of an international cult and later a world religion. The organization traces its origins to the Apostolic Age and the Roman Empire.

## Motives

The Church of the Great Caesar is a cult comprising of Anarchists worldwide that believe that human governments are brainwashing people into becoming "slaves" for the tyrannical world they call "Society" and that their mission is a divine calling to "liberate" others through brute force and propaganda. For the Church of the Great Caesar, a true victory would be successfully eliminating the governments of Earth and uniting the planet under a divine Theocracy.

## History

### Early history

The Church of the Great Caesar was formed in AD 33, during the Apostolic Age. During this time, the Early Church flourished, but as the years went by, it began to suffer persecution from the Roman Empire. In response to this, a group of radical Christian "Zealots" formed an Anarchist group, intending to overthrow the Roman Empire. However, this goal was never realized, as a series of calamities, foreign invasions and civil wars led to the demise of the Roman Empire.

### As a secret society

As a secret society, Raven secretly operated behind the scenes, manipulating history so as to make it bend to their will. Notable events include the thwarting of a plot to sabotage the US Civil Rights movement of the late fifties and early sixties, the involvement of the United States of America in Vietnam, as well as Operation Boomstick, the bloody coup against the so-called "illegitimate" US President, Elizabeth Hockley.

### As a cult insurgency

In the 20th Century, the Church of the Great Caesar abruptly reemerged as a cult, this time openly displaying its motives for its actions. From the early 1920s to the late 1990s, the Church of the Great Caesar continued to accumulate followers en-masse due to its charismatic and somewhat "rebellious" ideology. By the time of the late stages of the Cold War, the Church of the Great Caesar was able to institute riots in former Communist countries like Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Laos , Middle Eastern countries like Yemen, Iraq, Iran and Syria, and major superpowers like the United States.

### As a religion

By 2014, the Church of the Great Caesar had amassed a quarter of a billion followers worldwide. By 2015, the Church of the Great Caesar has officially claimed a spot as a major world religion, having established various religiously-based institutions worldwide. They also began to turn militant. Their first act against another party was a cyber-attack that took down the Islamic State of New Palestine's recruitment page on Facebook, in the year 2015. Their next move was a DDOS attack against the website named Pornhub that effectively (and permanently) crashed it. Later, in the year 2016, the cult executed a devastating attack against an animal rights activist group's website using botnets, causing millions of dollars in damages.

## Beliefs and ideology

### View of God

Originally an offshoot of Christianity, the cult has eventually become to be known as Christianity's "more extreme cousin." The members of the Church of the Great Caesar are Trinitarian theists (belief in only one God in three distinct persons, much like Christianity). However, they view God not just as a King, but as an eternal Emperor and henceforth give him the title of "the Great Eternal Caesar", otherwise known as "Caesar Yahweh", "Emperor Jehovah", or simply "the Great Caesar." Like Christians, they believe God is knowable, yet He hates Society as a whole because of how it has corrupted His perfect creation.

### View of humanity

Like Christians, the members of the Church of the Great Caesar believe that mankind had been perfect, only to rebel against their Creator and become separated from Him (Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23). They also believe that humanity as a society has become a massive, oppressive brainwashing machine dedicated to brainwashing and oppressing others. They also believe that humanity is no longer capable of doing anything truly good, as man's heart has been "corrupted beyond any means of human repair." The source of sin, in the Church of the Great Caesar's eyes, is man's obsessive desire to govern himself.

### View of history

History, according to the Church of the Great Caesar, is predetermined beforehand by the Great Caesar. They believe God mandated humans to manipulate historical events in a way that they forcibly subjugate all of humanity to the will of God. This, according to the Church's theology, is the entire point behind the Great Commission.

### View of Jesus Christ

The Church of the Great Caesar and Christianity both agree that Jesus is the Son of God. However, the Church of the Great Caesar also sees Jesus as a great military leader disguised as a pacifist. In addition, they believe that whenever Jesus made a divine claim about Himself in the Bible, He was secretly uttering veiled threats against the people of Society, those who cling to themselves and insist on governing their own lives. Notable examples include Matthew 5, which the Church of the Great Caesar interprets as Jesus' way of blessing those who already rebel against Society, yet also shaming the people who actively follow it. Finally, the Church of the Great Caesar also believes that Jesus' death on the Cross and His subsequent resurrection from the dead was God the Father's war declaration against the Society of sinful man, and that the Great Commission given by Jesus was really a command to bring Heaven to Earth by waging war against all human government by any means necessary.

### Meaning and purpose of life

The Church of the Great Caesar has one perspective when it comes to purpose of life: man's purpose is to follow Jesus, to obey the Great Caesar, and to achieve a path to "true freedom" by destroying tyrannical society through any means necessary. The ultimate goal is to become the Great Caesar's "legion" of followers dedicated to waging war against Society, and that to truly follow Jesus, one must overthrow the evil impulses from Society, and from people's own corrupt hearts.

## The Church of the Great Caesar vs. Christianity

### Similarities

Christianity and the Church of the Great Caesar have the same roots. They also have the similar basic doctrines as shown below:

* They are both Trinitarian theists
* They both believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that Jesus is the only way to God.
* They believe God is all-knowing, omnipotent, and omnipresent.
* They believe in the Holy Spirit
* They both believe humans are sinners separated from God (Romans 3:23) and that the wages of sin is spiritual separation from God (Romans 6:23).
* They believe that one must be "born again" to see Heaven/Valhalla  (John 3:3), though Raven calls it a "spiritual inversion", or an act of "spiritual anarchy"
* They believe that Jesus lived a sinless life and died via Crucifixion, only to rise again three days later, henceforth defeating the powers of spiritual death and separation from God.
* They both believe the Bible is the Divinely inspired Word of God.

### Differences

Despite their similarities, the Church of the Great Caesar and Christianity differ in the following aspects:

* Different take on God the Father-Jehovah/God the Father/Yahweh is given the title "Caesar", and worshipped as "Caesar Yahweh" or "the Great Caesar"
* Different take on the Great Commission-Christians see the Great Commission as a command to take the Gospel across the globe; the Church of the Great Caesar sees the Great Commission as a mandate by Jesus Christ to either share the Gospel with non-believers, or outright kill them in the event that they reject and/or act hostile to the faith.
* Divine claims of Jesus-Christianity sees Jesus' claims about Himself as evidence of His divinity, but the Church of the Great Caesar sees them as more-they are actually secret veiled threats uttered against the society of sinners (Particular examples are John 14:6, seen by Raven as Jesus declaring that no one-except Him-can save, not even the governments of the world, and Matthew 28, the last chapter of the Gospel of Matthew that contains the Great Commission).
* Different names for Heaven and Hell-Christianity simply calls Heaven "Heaven", or the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven. Heaven/Paradise in the Church of the Great Caesar is a fusion of Christianity and ancient Norse mythology, referred to as "Valhalla ". Like the concept of Heaven present in Norse mythology , Valhalla contains massive gates guarded by angels disguised as eagles and a massive dining hall, Valhalla is also seen as a Kingdom, much like the Biblical concept of the Kingdom of Heaven, where the Great Caesar Yahweh dwells along with His Son/Military Commander Jesus Christ. Hell, in the Church of the Great Caesar's theology, is called Tartarus (named after the Greek mythological version of Hell).
* Different take on Hell-To the Church of the Great Caesar, Hell (named Tartarus in the Church of the Great Caesar's ideology) is not a literal lake of fire (the "lake of fire" depiction of Hell is believed by the Church of the Great Caesar to be symbolic), but an endless cycle of reincarnation and annihilationism; the souls of condemned people are trapped in an cycle of being destroyed and reincarnated for all eternity.
* View on Sin-the Church of the Great Caesar sees sin as a cancer that has infected all people as a society so much that it is beyond repair (though people can still be saved) and therefore must be destroyed. They also see human governments as the ultimate example of human sin.
* Different view of the Cross-The Cross is seen by the Church of the Great Caesar as God the Great Caesar's "war declaration" against human sin, which Raven believes to have spread so much that God has had enough and has decided to go on the offensive (through the Great Commission).
* Concept of Guardian Angels-Followers of the Church of the Great Caesar also believe in Valkyries, guardian angels that supposedly accompany the Church of the Great Caesar's soldiers in warfare. They watch over the souls of soldiers in battle and personally bring the souls of those slain in battle to be judged by the Great Caesar.
* Concept of a Last Judgment-Like Christians, the Church of the Great Caesar has a concept of a "Final Judgment". However, it is different from Christianity in that it is not only whether has received Jesus Christ as Savior during his or her Earthly existence, but also judged on the basis of how much they reflected Jesus throughout their Earthly life (i.e. how much they displayed a "godly hatred" for anything worldly).
* Different view of the Fate of the Unlearned-In regards to the fate of those who die without even getting a chance to hear the Gospel, the Church of the Great Caesar's followers believe that the Great Caesar Yahweh, based on the teachings of Yahweh's love and mercy in the Bible, will hold humans who haven't had a chance to hear the Gospel to a different standard. Like Christians, the Church of the Great Caesar believes the unlearned will be judged on the basis of God's general revelation in nature (Romans 1:18-20) and conscience (Romans 2:14-15). If they responded positively to Yahweh's general revelation, he will treat them as if they accepted Jesus as Savior in their Earthly lives, despite having no knowledge of Him during their earthly lives. If not, they go to Hell. Unlike most Christians, who believe that a majority of humans have rejected God's general revelation and lived immoral lives, the Church of the Great Caesar believes that there is a small minority of people in the world that have at least accepted God's general revelation and, based on their understanding and interpretation of God's love, mercy and compassion, He could give them a chance at salvation (a variation of the so-called heretical Second Chance Theology). When challenged by Christians and *their* interpretation of Romans 1:18-25, which says that the provisions in the chapter are only sufficient to condemn and not save the unlearned, the Church of the Great Caesar argues that Romans 1:18-25 is worded too vaguely and rendered too ambiguous to objectively determine that *all* have rejected God's general revelation and henceforth accuse Christians of "calling God impotent and putting Him in a box."