Replies to post #146338 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Babylon]

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In a nutshell what I was trying to say is, powers that have been, are usually written about by historians through a secular pen, and the other way by way of true inspiration, as is my belief. Whether it be taxes, deficits, excess credit expansion or even the beginnings of a shift in power, etc., there's a larger reason behind the moves, that are far easier to pass off as a problem beyond our own choices we've been freely given to make as individuals.

[Elroy Jetson]

I believe it was actually a result of a massive transgression of God's Law(s) that brought Rome down, albeit according to prophecy and plan however.

That's exactly what the Romans living at the time wrote.

Large numbers of citizens and non-citizens alike had abandoned worship of the Gods of their Fathers, Jupiter and the pantheon, in favor of the new superstitions of Christianity and Zoastraism.

Not even the threat of capital puishment was sufficient to stem this moral rot.

Romans at the time knew that this great evil would not go unpunished.