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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (24459)8/19/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Achilles  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Nancy, yes I've read it, but I don't think you'd like it. To put it very simply, Gibbon's argument was that Christianity, with its ideas of peace and its focus on the afterlife etc., caused the fall of the empire, not lax morals. Naturally not many agree with him. The idea that immorality caused the decline and fall is not (to my knowledge) argued by anyone who knows much about Roman history: the worst immorality came in the first century AD under the Claudian and Flavian emperors, Rome did not fall until the sixth century AD, and that was under Christian emperors. Why did Rome fall? Well, I don't want to write a book: many others have. If you're sincerely interested in the topic, I can recommend some good books.
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