[TheCrusader]

"Accounts from the 4th century describe how barbarians stood at the gates of the Roman empire while a Christian movement threatened its stability from within."

Augustine utterly destroyed this theory in his book "City of God", (412 A.D.). He lived in Rome during the Barbarian invasions and recorded that it was Rome's pagan lifestyle that was responsible for the sack of Rome, and not Chrisianity.

[Kenny Bunk]

From Augustine as an historian:

"O Lord make me accurate ... but not just now."