Originally Posted by WIKI

The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Originally Posted by The Real History of World War II: A New Look at the Past - Google Books by Alan Axelrod - 2008 - History - 385 pages

Well before Hitler, Mussolini had made himself master of the big lie and was especially adept at such bold oxymorons as “democratic dictators,” an expression ...

Originally Posted by AM

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CH 6: How Roman Emperors became Gods

"Gertud Bing, the director the Warburg Institute ... happened
to be in Rome with with Warburg, the founder and patron saint
of the Warburg institute, on that day, February 11, 1929, on
which Mussolini and the Pope proclaimed the reconciliation
between Italy and the Catholic Church ... There were in Rome
tremendous popular demonstrations, whether orchestrated from
above or below. Mussolini became overnight the "man of providence",
and in such an inconvenient position he remained for many years.

.... some of the most original work on the Roman imperial cult
was done around the years 1929-1934 in the ambiguous atmosphere
of the revival of emperor worship in which it was difficult to
separate the adulation from political emotion, and political
emotion from religious or superstitious exitement.

Originally Posted by mountainman

As a propaganda technique using the high technology of the codex, could Constantine have authorized/sponsored/commissioned a series of Greek textual publications related to an historical Jesus, who supposedly "appeared in the flesh" 300 years before Nicaea, as a "Big Lie"?

Originally Posted by sotto voce

If Jesus did not actually live on this earth, an awful lot of people (or a lot of awful people) have made complete gibbering morons of themselves for no good reason.