(May 2, 2017 at 5:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Even in late Republican times the nobility indulged their pleasures while the commons were reduced to abject poverty.
You know, what republicunts call their "plan for the future."
The fall of polytheistic Rome giving way to Christian Rome didn't create modern concepts of government. It is a complete fallacy that people stupidly think of ancient Rome and Greece as the origins of modern government. The were still back then ruled by a ruling family and that family could not be removed and the power was handed down through the family and or by assassination by a family rival or political rival. When Constantine adapted Christianity as the official religion even he was part of a ruling family.
Christianity did not create our modern western pluralism and checks on power, back then all it did was replace one abuser with a new abuser. When Christianity took over you were still talking about a three class system, the ruling class, the military class and the common layperson. Unless you were part of the aristocracy or military class you really simply towed the national mindset, and were tolerated at best.
Christianity did not win because of a non existent magic man, it simply got successfully marketed, and it's rise had more to do with the rejection of the prior polytheism's wasteful spending and military over reach which bankrupted polytheistic Rome.
