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Best books on the Roman Empire? I wanted to read Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman empire but the opinion seems to be that its very outdated and his blaming the fall on Christianity is pretty unsubstantiated.

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>>11715286
>blaming the fall on Christianity is pretty unsubstantiated.
Not at all. Christianity was a jewish social virus that elevated weakness and egalitarian values as revaluations of Roman values that promoted strength and fortitude. Modern liberalism, which jews also have by far the heaviest hand in promoting, is a modern version of that slave revolt ideology and it is destroying the west now just as Christianity did Rome back then. Jews are civilization destroyers, and their main weapon is ideology that weakens the host nation/people. From Egypt to Rome to today, it's what they do as nomadic conmen who can't create anything on their own.

You should read Gibbon's book though.

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>>11715479
>Christianity was a jewish social virus that elevated weakness
They didn't speak English back then. They didn't even write the word meek in it.
>Egalitarianism
Which is why the emperors, kings and popes were in favor of it? Christianity bans all revolt against earthly power and the egalitarianism you want to see there doesn't exist - it is, however the case that God doesn't need us and can replace us (=equality) if He so wishes. Equality didn't extend through nations or between classes and sexes. You can't replace the holiness of a nation or that of a man. Only God can do so.
It is when you dehumanize that you treat people equally.

>> No.11716330

>>11716208
You need to try to unchain yourself from your semitic masters.

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>>11716208

Man.
Read Heather's book.
The Church Democratized the oligarchic Empire. There was now a way to get power without having an elite family or land.
And for that matter, money.
Once people had power and money they could get the land too.

Believe me, Christianity did seriously undermine the Empire establishment but foreign adventures on two fronts was already tenuous, and then when the German tribes showed up fleeing harassment from raiding tribes from central Asia, the Roman politicians refused to let them in so it became a three front war now with Guerrillas.

So you see, Romans were doing exactly what we in the west are doing now, and it fucked them in the ass.

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>>11716330
unchain yourself from semitic masters x2

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>>11715411
>book cover has positive review tidbits
Wtf is this? A direct to video movie?