Sir Chris

The Gospel According to Zeus

What it actually meant to live under his law, before every retelling turned him into a tantrum with a lightning bolt https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-gospel-according-to-zeus?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1

Ready or Not

Why waiting out enforcement isn't a strategy—it's a bet with no clock. https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/ready-or-not?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1

Performative religion isn’t unique to strongmen. It shows up anywhere power and legitimacy intersect. Popes, archbishops, presidents, revolutionaries, party machines, campaign operatives, all of them are tempted to wrap themselves in moral language to stabilize power. Politicians do it constantly with churches, clergy, prayer breakfasts, gospel cadences, and selective scripture. The issue isn’t who does it. The issue is whether people can still tell the difference between faith and theater.