[ZULU]

“I’ve never heard that it was the Christian army that did the Romans in. Instead, barbarians and laziness on the part of the Romans were largely the cause.”

Greed, reliance on a large professional standing army which owed its allegiance to Generalissimos instead of the state, massive civil wars which destroyed the military professional elite, mass “immigration” by unassimilable tribes, a primitive form of “gun control” (Roman citizens were denied the use and possession of weapons - only those professional soldiers and the unassimilable masses of barbarians carried them) contributed to the fall of Rome.

[KC Burke]

Chritianity was a competing cultural base within the Roman state when Constantine picked up is standard as a rallying flag for his own advancement. The faith in the pagan rituals was lackluster ritualization (as their was no faith in anything behind the rituals); so that culture could not stand the stronger one.

Here, Buckley, the author of God and Man at Yale, looses has no faith behind the civil culture of the west and rolls over in the face of Islamic Theocracy and not even state theocracy, but terrorist theocracy.

Get your testosterone checked Bill, your age is showing.