mindmap root((THE/THEO)) apotheosis 1、 Transformation into a god.
2、 The perfect example.
🌱Abraham Lincoln's apotheosis after his assassination transformed the controversial politician into the saintly savior of his country. 🌳In ancient Greece, historical figures were sometimes worshipped as gods. In Rome, apotheosis was rare until the emperor Augustus declared the dead Julius Caesar to be a god, and soon other dead emperors were being apotheosized as well. In older paintings you may see a heroic figure—Napoleon, George Washington, or Shakespeare, for example—being raised into the clouds, symbolizing his or her apotheosis. But today any great classic example of something can be called its apotheosis. You might hear it said, for example, that Baroque music reached its apotheosis in the works of J. S. Bach, or that the Duesenberg Phaeton was the apotheosis of the touring car. atheistic Denying the existence of God or divine power.
🌱The atheistic Madalyn Murray O'Hair successfully sought the removal of prayer from American public schools in the 1960s. 🌳In the Roman Empire, early Christians were called atheistic because they denied the existence of the Roman gods. And once the Christian church was firmly established, it condemned the Romans as atheists because they didn't believe in the Christian God. In later centuries, English-speaking Christians would often use the words pagan and heathen to describe such non-Christians, while atheist would be reserved for those who actually denied the existence of any god. Atheism is different from agnosticism, which claims that the existence of any higher power is unknowable; and lots of people who simply don't think much about religion often call themselves agnostics as well. pantheon 1、 A building serving as the burial place of or containing memorials to the famous dead of a nation.
2、 A group of notable persons or things.
🌱A Hall of Fame serves as a kind of pantheon for its field, and those admitted in the early years are often the greatest of all. 🌳Each of the important Roman gods and goddesses had many temples erected in their name. But in 27 B.C. a temple to all the gods together was completed in Rome; twice destroyed, it was ultimately replaced by a third temple around A.D. 126. This extraordinary domed structure is still one of the important sights of Rome, and the burial place for the painters Raphael and Carracci and two kings. In Paris, a great church was completed in 1789–90; named the Panthéon, it was announced as the future resting place of France's great figures, and the bodies of Victor Hugo, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, and many others now rest within its walls. theocracy 1、 Government by officials who are regarded as divinely inspired.
2、 A state governed by a theocracy.
🌱The ancient Aztecs lived in a theocracy in which guidance came directly from the gods through the priests. 🌳In the Middle Ages, the Muslim empires stretching around much of the Mediterranean were theocracies, and the pope ruled most of modern-day Italy. But theocracies are rare today. Modern Iran and Saudi Arabia （and perhaps half a dozen others） are usually regarded as theocratic governments, since, even though Iran's president is elected by popular vote and Saudi Arabia is ruled by a royal family, the countries' laws are religious laws. But when a government tries to follow all the teachings of a single religion, things usually don't work out terribly well, so U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights forbid using religion as the principal basis for democracy.