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Untrue. But what you are saying is part of the post-Christian academic rhetoric that sees propaganda in these pious religious rites. We have to break through the narrative that has been pushed so that we never consider it legitimate.
Moreover. the Republican disposition reflects only the opinions of Suetonius himself, and not the wider Roman public, where we see they were quite devoted to the emperor even in the times of Augustus.
Towards the end of Caesar's life he was called Jupiter Julius and wore the imperial purple of the old roman kings. his followers tried to coronate him with a king's wreath. He rejected these, but only half heartedly.
Augustus permitted his worship within Rome itself. He mandated that he must be worshipped alongside dea Roma. However, later on. The perimeter of the temple affirmed worship of the divus (dead emperors) while the altar itself was dedicated to the living emperor). At no point was a dead emperor venerated without the present living emperor.
these are the flaws of academia and Christianised interpretation, particularly due to Gibbon's work that sees only empty propaganda in it, due to the Christian narrative that Rome was 'saved'
By the time of Claudius, they removed Roma entirely. This occurred in Britannia.
Then later British kings in the early middle ages referenced Rome and their divine kingship. It strongly impressed a form of embodied maiestas in the ruler across all of Western Europe evident
This is getting a bit dense for a 4chan thread, but archaeology shows the most pure emperor worship occurred in Western provinces.
Wiki says it must be reappraised:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_imperial_cult
This essay goes into archeology, and how more pure emperor worship occurred in the Western provinces, because Rome itself and the East didn't need to, as it was already part of the sacred body. The establishment of formal cult occurred much later
https://x.com/everettmmxx/status/1934039828800139623
