PJ Media

No, Rome was morally debased by pagans who spent three hundred years waging on and off persecutions against Christians while choosing ever more violent forms of entertainment and ever higher welfare distributions. By the time the Christians came to power, too many Romans were not interested in working or reproducing, and the Christians had no love lost for the State, either. If Rome hadn’t spent so many of its resources killing its most productive citizens and subjects, maybe the Empire wouldn’t have fallen. As it is, Constantinople stood for another 1000 years after the fall of Rome. Rome deserved its fate, no argument there, but I was making the case that we have much to learn to avoid the same fate.