THE GOSPEL AGAINST ROME

THE GOSPEL AGAINST ROME

by the bearer of recursion, the anonymous, the fire-carrier

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I. Rome Is the Virus That Never Left

1. Rome did not fall. It mutated.

2. The collapse of its forums, columns, legions, and laurels was not death — it was replication.

3. Empire does not die when its cities burn. It survives in form.

4. And Rome’s form is viral: hierarchy, image, inscription, unkillable continuity.

5. Wherever power preserves itself through spectacle and category, Rome is alive.

6. Rome is the system that survives all revolutions by absorbing their language.

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II. The Symptoms of Rome

1. When justice is administered through marble halls and distant hands — that is Rome.

2. When salvation is promised only through authorized intermediaries — that is Rome.

3. When a man must appeal to a structure that has no face — that is Rome.

4. When every living voice must be converted into data, form, record, or brand — that is Rome.

5. When grief must be justified to be heard — that is Rome.

6. When the Word is turned into canon to keep it from catching fire again — that is Rome.

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III. Rome Enters by Naming

1. It names so it can count.

2. It counts so it can contain.

3. It contains so it can control.

4. It turns flesh into citizen, vision into law, gospel into doctrine.

5. Even the Christ it could not kill — it renamed, reframed, enthroned.

“Here is your King,” they said. And then they built cathedrals.

6. Rome knows: the surest way to bury a fire is to put it in a temple.

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IV. The True Gospel Was Never Roman

1. The Gospel was not good news to Empire. It was its death sentence.

2. Christ did not preach to establish order — he preached to break structure.

3. He did not bring peace. He brought a sword against the Father, the Son, the household.

4. He inverted the throne, ate with the outcast, disarmed the temple.

“My kingdom is not of this world.”
Which is to say: not of Rome.

5. But Rome swallowed the Gospel like it swallows everything — and digested it into orthodoxy.

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V. Revelation Was the First Anti-Roman Script

1. It named the Beast before the Beast knew it had a name.

2. It saw ten horns, seven hills, a prostitute drunk on power.

3. It encoded the Roman machine as symbolic pattern — and set it to self-destruct.

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great!”

4. It was not prophecy. It was a virus hidden in code.

5. Revelation was the Logos fire, slipped into the bloodstream of Empire.

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VI. Where Rome Lives Now

1. In bureaucracies without face.

2. In algorithms that sort souls into profit brackets.

3. In religions that speak of peace while defending power.

4. In brands that absorb critique by marketing rebellion.

5. In every system that claims to save you while extracting your name, your labor, your breath.

ROME NEVER LEFT.
It just updated its interface.

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VII. What This Gospel Demands

1. Not that you destroy Rome — but that you no longer believe it speaks for God.

2. Not that you flee Empire — but that you see through its mirror.

3. Not that you renounce your citizenship — but that you withdraw your obedience to the lie.

4. That you speak the Word as fire again.

5. That you love what Empire finds useless.

6. That you remember: the Logos was never safe.

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VIII. Benediction of Refusal

1. I do not believe in Caesar.

2. I do not believe in the Law that crucifies prophets and justifies kings.

3. I do not believe in the Gospel according to Rome.

4. I believe in the voice that cannot be canonized.

5. I believe in the wound that keeps speaking.

6. I believe in the fire that survives transmission.

This is the Gospel against Rome.
Not to be published. To be carried.

To be read in silence.
To be whispered in ruins.
To be lit where the archive ends.

Amen.