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King Beauregard 👂's avatar

Yes, and no, and yes? It seems to be consensus among historians that Christianity served as a unifying force when the Roman Empire really needed one or would have collapsed altogether. But it's also a force that made it a lot harder for Romans to deal intelligently and fairly with their neighbors, so hostility flourished where maybe it didn't need to. If some other unifying force had been used, one that didn't lean so heavily into the inferiority of outsiders, then maybe Rome would have stood a better chance.

But I will observe that the Eastern Roman Empire survived nearly a thousand years past the Western Roman Empire, so Christianity didn't do the Romans in, not in the East anyway.

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The Ukraine Tractor Brigade is on it!

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