Did Christianity bring about the fall of the Roman Empire?

Question

The Empire flourished for many centuries. Then Constantine got converted, and made Christianity the "official religion." A century later Rome fell.

Answer 1

Well, Christianity certainly helped. Science, logic, reason, and critical thought have long been regarded (by religious people) as the enemies of religion. These are the very qualities that see through religion, and recognize it for what it is; i.e., religion cannot survive the glaring light of reason and critical thought. This was well understood by important figures in religious history. This is why the early church destroyed all the 'tainted' (non-canonical) writings, which were in conflict with dogma... Greek philosophy, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, engineering... all the good stuff. By this means, Christianity dragged humanity directly into the Dark Ages.

Answer 2

yes, yes it did.

Actually, there are several factors to why the roman Empire fell. For one, they were advanced enough technologically to have pipes with running water. Wait, but that's a good thing, right? Not if the pipes are made of lead, which in large enough (still rather small) quantities, it is lethal. On theory is that it dumbed them up a bit over a few generations and their skills in combat no longer met their record nor their claims. But certainly, Christianity oppresses people. It discourages science and technology and invention, for the free-thinking individuals involved in these things were typically less religious. Religion likes to control. You can't deny that. It tells you how to live, what to do and say and think. when the knowledge and technology stopped expanding, the trend in multiplying free-thinkers inverted.

P.S. What Peeves most is how religious advocates burned the Great Library of Alexandria. So many great books, works, equations, invention blueprints, philosophy, etc. All that has been lost is just now being re-invented, like the speedometer, for example. Rome had that, and not even Leonardo Devinchi could duplicate it.

Answer 3

While there are those who say that it was a leading factor in the fall of ancient Rome, from my studies I believe that Rome faced a great number of crises that, combined, contributed to her fall:

they amassed too large an empire

they drained their treasury trying to defend its borders

there was a decreasing tax base, increases in inflation and unemployment

the military often took control of the government and turned against its citizens

there were outbreaks of plague and famine

many citizens were no longer concerned about their political responsibilities and hungered for the spectacle of "blood sports"/"bread and circuses"

etc.

(Does that list look familiar to anyone? Because history has a tendency to repeat itself).

Certainly Christianity contributed to the fall - Christians refused to serve in the military and emperors like Constantine diverted funds to the building of Churches - but I don't think that it was significant enough to bring down the Empire.

Answer 4

The pagans of northern Europe, in live performance with incompetent Roman officials, and far of different factors further down the Roman empire. it can've occurred with or without the Christians, who actual had no section contained in the fall of the Roman empire.

Answer 5

The Roman Empire became too large to manage and collapsed under its own weight. There were thousands of different religions throughout the Empire before Constantine invented "Christianity" and he invented his Universal Religion ("Christianity") attempting to lessen the impact religious strife was having on the Empire.

But, it did not succeed and power hungry religious freaks began ripping the Empire apart when Constantine foolishly allowed them to consolidate their power.

Answer 6

No, but the Roman Empire did bring about the fall of True Christianity.

Answer 7

Rome didn't fall, it morphed. Now the "Pontifex Maximus" is no longer called Caesar, he's called "Pope", "Summus Pontifex", "Servus servorum Dei" etc.

After all, the Jewish High Priest officially transfered his office to Pontius Pilate when he uttered the words "We have no King but Caesar".

Rome evicted the Jews from the land they were given authority over, and attempted to usurp Christ's headship over the church.

Luckily, the scripture promises the Gates of Hell will not prevail against the TRUE church built upon the foundation of the TRUE rock, which is JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS.

Answer 8

Sure know that most religions, Cristiam in perticular bought death, desturction and war where they lit. They started with promises of eternal lfe, heaven and such, then they progressed to making everyone follow rules and be sheep. Next thing you know they have armies of fanatics going out to get money land, power and more converts, Sooner or later they get there a$$es kicked and their governments fail. I think this is just USA's first religious war because the idiots elected Bush and they fear other religions. Now the pots really boiling!

Answer 9

I just listened to a podcast about how Christianity was engineered by the Flavians to favor the Roman Empire. Going in i thought it was just wacky... but after listening to the evidence it really started to click! I'm still VERY VERY skeptical of this claim and currently i chalk it up to how the Bible is so interpretable... however, it's really quite cool when you hear it.

Answer 10

No, Rome conquered Rome and when you search for it, you shall find it like Rome itself, a city of unparalleld art and made of a liberal parts of all the four elements.
Read the book ----Rome - A perfect Empire.