1. The Fall of the Roman Empire
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... The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, concluded that, in the main, Christianity was responsible. This new religion, Gibbon argued, caused Roman leaders to drop out of the public eye ...

2. The Fall of Rome
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... and afterwards, as their Bishop, he brought them Christianity, albeit of the Arian variety. All had been well, it seemed, until recently. The Roman town in which he now resided with a small band of Goth ...

3. Religion and Civilization
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Religion, said Bertrand Russell, is "a disease born of fear and [is] a source of untold misery to the human race."1 Russell's opinion has gained wide currency as the perception that Western civilization ...