I must admit, I’d never heard the fall of Rome compared to a glacier, but I suppose it fits well enough. When I think of the fall of the Roman Empire, I always remember being told they collapsed because they spread themselves so thin. In my mind I always pictured a rubber band, stretching and stretching until finally one day it snapped. This is the picture all of my past teachers have painted for me, but that really isn’t the way it happened. I find it kind of (a little bit) funny that everyone always thinks of this huge event of it collapsing, when no one can actually name the exact date it happened. It seems like the conquerors taking the names of the local population seems a lot more common you would think.
I have always hated the part of history when Christians start taking over, any religion really, but Christianity seems like it’s the least tolerant (this is probably because it’s the one you always hear about the most in history books).
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I understand what you are saying about religious intolerance, but i think if you really look at it you will see that it isnt the religion itself that is intolerant, but rather the people practicing it. Men fit their own agendas and ego behind a facade of following religious order all too often.
I mostly aggree with you. I think on a smaller scale (local level), people usualy *mean* well, but everything on a larger scale corrupts. And so, like you said, religion gets twisted and re-shaped to suit thier own ends.
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