http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/01/001gross2.htm&sourceid=opera&num=50&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Why would Jerry B.

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Why would Jerry B. Jenkins want to be famous? In The Frenzy of Renown: Fame & Its History, Leo Braudy points out that Emperor Augustus made the Roman state “the only place where personal dignity could be conferred.” Then Christianity came along “to define an arena for individual nature well beyond the political,” and “dignity was conferred not in the service of Rome, but in the service of God.” (Render unto Caesar, and so forth.) The empire socialized the desire for personal recognition; the Church spiritualized it. Still, the Church and the Empire each also retained some vestige of the other’s power. The Catholic ecclesiastical structure can still slake the human thirst for worldly recognition within a community of the faithful; for Catholics, salvation has always had to do with actual physical interaction among believers.

I found the idea that Christians just want to be famous kinda funny. Listening: Givin’ Up - The Darkness