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Created: 2025-07-25 13:06:34 UTC

Gibbon’s claim wasn’t that Christianity was false.
It was that it changed what people valued.

It shifted focus from civic duty to personal salvation. From defending the empire to waiting for heaven.

And it empowered bishops more than generals.

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