03-07-2008, 05:33 PM
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential cause of Rome's decline lay in her people, her horals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars...Rome was not destroyed by Christianity, any more than by barbarian invasion; it was an empty shell when Christianity arose to influence and invasion came." - Will and Ariel Durant
Hmmmm.....sounds strangely familiar.....
Hmmmm.....sounds strangely familiar.....