Well you have a problem then because this nation very early on was founded on tenets of a Judeo-Christian consensus, though one that followed more after Melchizidek versus Aaron(the Christ that stopped the stoning of the prostitute vs the Pharisee that demanded it). It created a male citizenry who tended to be fair minded and could be persuaded over time to afford rights to women and to begin to see them as equals. The latter part of Galatians 3 (if you would read it) speaks of the true equality of those who are in Jesus, there was to be no Jew or Greek, slave or free, rich or poor , or man or woman but all were to be One in Christ Jesus. In this present life and relative to various cultures there were differences in the roles of men and women in the church but it was always wrong from the perspective of Christ to see these roles as ‘superior and inferior’ in the eyes of God. Christ said the roles of men and women will change in the resurrection anyway as all will be as the angels who neither marry nor will be given in marriage. Complete freedom!
As for your grasp of history, The Romans had already “laid waste” before the Christians even took it over...the Empire was already in slow decline when the Christians became the dominant religion and it split under Diocletian as it was too big and unwieldy to be controlled from Rome anymore! Christianity would become the accepted state religion under Constantine! The western half would fall in 476 and the Eastern half would finally fall in 1453 via the Seljuk Turks. It was Christians in 732 that beat back the Muslims from Tours but it would be another 760 years before they were completely driven out of Europe (Spain 1492). Various other battles and Islam was relegated to Turkey, nations in North Africa who were subjugated by Europe, and the middle East and certain sections of Asia such as Afghanistan and India. So the history of GEOPOLITICAL Christianity is a bit more complicated as it took a bit of muscular vision to inspire men to beat back Islam to where it was subdued in the world by 1914 and the outbreak of WW1 !
It will take another moral force of suitable masculine vision to beat back Islam again...but I think the next time a higher power will intervene...Israel will never be destroyed again and God himself will intervene! That is a personal belief...I know you don’t believe it!
Agreed, the Romans were in decline in the 4th Century CE, this is WHY Constantine saw the early Christian movement as the perfect strategy to unite the Roman Empire. Constantine FORCED all Roman Citizens to be Christian. Refusal was death. Perhaps, this is what the current Globalists are hoping to achieve with ISLAM.
As for my grasp of history, Fact- The dark ages BLOOMED the more Catholic the Roman Empire became. From the 5th century to roughly the early part of 16th century, the western world of innovation ceased to exist-Thanks to the Roman Catholic Church.
*back, pocket, pipe, smoke*