Impiety

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Impiety is a lack of proper concern for the obligations owed to cult; that is, to the outward practices of a belief system. Impiety was a main Pagan objection to Christianity, for unlike other initiates into mystery religions, early Christians refused to cast a pinch of incense before the images of the gods, among whom were the protective deified Emperors. Impiety in ancient civilizations was a civic concern, rather than religious. It was believed that it could bring down upon the whole res publica the wrath of the tutelary gods who protected the polis. Impiety is not a Christian phenomenon.

Socrates and Anaxagoras were put to death for impiety (against ancient Greek gods), and Aristotle was also charged with impiety after the death of Alexander the Great. According to the Vita Aristotelis Marciana, a much mutilated single manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale di San Marco in Venice, written about 1300, Aristotle left the city, saying, "I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy" (Vita Aristotelis, 41). The medieval Christian compiler has rendered the Athenians' crime as a "sin". Sin, however, sin was an alien concept to the Greeks and Romans. When Aramaic had to be translated into Greek in editing the New Testament, the Greek word hamartia came to be used. Hamartia ("missing the mark") is only very approximately translated as "sin."

"Impiety" is the title of a 2007 movie from Wreaking Havoc Productions, Inc. Written, Directed, and Produced by Bill Mills. Starring Shaun Ryan, Christina Daoust, Jean Leavitt, Jacqueline Werner, Zacharay Memos, Amy Barnhill, Sarah Syring, Kenneth Matthews, and William Sparks. This is a dark satire of one guy's journey into the world of corrupt politics, corrupt religion, and corrupt media. A journey into the world of Impiety. Guy is a hero that has been corrupted against his will to serve these politicians, religious leaders, and media in ways that he may or may not remember. He is turned into an assassin for the good of the cause! The cause -- getting the first woman elected president! web-site

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