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When people wanna quote the Ten Commandments, remind them of Mark 12:17: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto God what is God's." Quote is attributed to Jesus. He was saying take care of your secular business before your religious business. And for fuck's sake, if you're gonna say it out loud, at least pronounce Caesar as Jesus did, not like you're talking about fucking salad dressing.
It's "Kie-sahr," not "See-zer." Caesar would probably have you up on a cross getting nibbled on by crows while you starve to death if you called him "See-zer" to his face. If you've seen the second season of the show Fallout, they pronounce it correctly. That's because in the video game, Fallout: New Vegas (2010), about half of them did. That Caesar didn't really care, but Julius, Augustus, or fucking Caligula? Yeah, your mispronunciation would be their dinner entertainment.
Anyway, for context, the Jews were asking Jesus if it was okay to pay taxes to Caesar or if they should tithe to the church first. And Jesus basically said "go handle your business." The Caesars were not nice people (even if you could say their name right), but since when have our leaders ever been nice?
Interesting, where do you get the pronunciation from though? I always thought it was somehow related to the notion of seize the throne, thus see-zer.
The game got me curious, why half the voice actors were pronouncing it that way. Apparently the soft C didn't exist back then. And from what I was able to research (and probably posted in AskHistory or AskHistorians on Reddit), what I learned was that half the voice actors were pronouncing it correctly, while the rest were using the modern pronunciation.
Well, you see, in ancient rome they spoke Latin instead of english. The roman Caesar is the origin of both the german Kaiser and the Russian Tsar/Czar. Kai-sar was how it would be pronounced in latin
It was his family name well before he took the throne.