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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
nunnsense,
If you read "The Closing of the Western Mind", by Charles Freeman, the codification of Christianity into Catholicism, was part of the attempt to salvage the crumbling empire. Gibbon is the one who felt that Christianity caused the fall, but that would be true only in the sense that it became one of the competing power blocs that warred over the remains.