The Importance of Consequences in the Roman Empire

Stephen Pinkerway: What do you mean by consequential here? I originally thought you just meant how to significant impact or something, but sounds like you mean something else. He says he now believes that some sort of complex ethical religious system was going to become dominant in the Roman Empire at some point. "I came to believe it because if you look at cross-culturally other societies have also gone through the same transition around the same time"