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Looking for unbiased books on the rise of everyone's favorite Grecco-Jewish cult and why it happened. Got inspired by something on reddit for once, but was disappointed by the flimsy answers that usually fell into one of two groups:
>1. PBS Bible "academics" who play up the idea of polytheistic degeneracy, Roman tyranny, and how Christianity was a non-stop success train that ushered in a new age of intellectual study and widespread love for everyone. Also fuck you for even suggesting Christianity had anything to do with Rome's fall.
>2. Asspained Gore Vidal types who blame Christianity for Rome's fall and adhere to the idea of the "Dark Ages" from 500-1500AD.

Already read Charles Freeman's "Closing of Western Mind", which I highly suggest. Will probably be the closest satisfactory reading of the time period that isn't bleached with politics.

>> No.6898463

>>6898396
There are no unbiased books.

You have biased books that favor greeks and biased books that favor christians. Just read both sides of the story, the truth is lost in there.

>> No.6898640

I've been reading History of the Catholic Church by James Hitchcock. It's pretty good. The author is agnostic so it is pretty unbiased.

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>>6898640
>The author is agnostic so it is pretty unbiased.

>> No.6898729

Then how come it was the greeks and romans that had all the patrician culture and the jews were best able to preserve it in modern times?

checkmate post-christians

>> No.6898735

Diarmaid MacCulloch's "A History of Christianity" is really good for this