Actually, no, Buffy. Caesar had declared himself God, and the new king, Jesus, with the growing number of followers, he mistakenly saw as a threat to his rule. Romans saw all the peoples they had vanquished as their inferiors and uncivilized pagans. Oh, and by the way, I was a wannabe Hippie, and I was in Berkeley
CA soon after they had given their movement a funeral. As a Draft Dodger and a Viet Nam War Protester, darlin', I was one of them. I hitch-hiked around CA extensively drifted, usually jobless from place to place. So, let me lift the weight of your responsibility to chastise me off your shoulders. I confess. So, you can stop the judgmental rap. I represented everything I was joking about the condition of the Hippies. Okay?