Rome was a famed city and was glorious in action, all of which made it's downfall that much more drastic. Many opinoins have been expressed on how its fall came about, one of which is Gibbons' opinoin that the fall of the Roman empire was brought about by the Chrisitian faith.

As always one needs someone or something to to blame. In this case ,as it was above said, Gibbons blames Christianity for the downfall of Rome.He states that Rome was large enough and would have been able to create a magnificent and unbeatable army if it had not been for the Christian doctrine. Gibbons goes on to say that the clergy of the Christians were passive in their virtues of society and mainly preached the doctrines of patience and cowardness. All of which resulted, as he says, in the military spirit being burried within the cloister. The revolutions, as Gibbons described the wave of Christianity , aroused the persectued sects to become the hidden enemies of Rome. It was only hastened when one of the Roman leaders, Constantine, converted to Christianity and thusforth brought Rome down with him.

Romes downfall, as I see it, was not solely based upon Christianity.The downfall was more or less based uopn the rejection of a new faith, and the fact that Rome had tired to grasp all that it could, therefor crumbling. The Romans, in a sence, worshipped their emperors and made them thier Gods. Christians believing as they do in only one supreme being would not swear oaths to the Roman encampments henceforth making it impossible for the Christians to fight for Rome and ceasing an unbeatable army to exist.

Rome had reached as far as as it could, it had taken in so many smaller countries that it beagn to crumble beaneath itself. It grew to such a vast extent that the people within it began to split, and the leaders disageed on the simplest of terms. The power was not evenly dispersed between the leaders resulting in a war of Rome against itself.

To blame one thing such as Christianity for fall of such a great empire as Rome is based upon the writers personal bias against Christianity. Although Christianity played a part in the downfall of the Roman empire, it was not the sole cause for the destruction. The authors personal opinion is not an objective case for the downfall of the Roman empire.