My favorite Roman Emperor, Flavius Julianus, was a true philosopher king. Though trained in Christianity, he rejected its exclusivism and advocated the resurgence of the 'pagan' cults. The 'bearded one' also threw his support into a campaign to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

He is the kind of leader we need for such a time as this, when militant, angry fundamentalist Christianity threatens to create a new theocracy in America.

May God bless to our lives the memory of his short life!!