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Untimely Reflections #20: Uberboyo - The Promethean West

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Christianity and the Roman Pagans

Christianity told the exact same story and Nietzsche points this out in genealogy of morality in a brilliant way. When Christianity sees its power several several very scary things happen first of all what follows immediately famously is a dark age, he says. The Romans went from having all their engineers and all their ability to organize aqueducts so they start to fall apart within Rome converted to Christianity with I guess you could say Rome converted in 380 AD in 391 it banned the pagan gods and made them illegal to worship them. 19 years later in 410 Rome is sacked by barbarians for the first time in 800 years 19 years after they have their great revolution Rome is now getting invaded by foreigners.

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