Quoted By:
it's a religion of the fallen man, if christianity succeeded in late decadent Rome is because its masses were decadent in the first place and had little to do with the tempered and austere aryan warrior-herders at the inception of that state; it's not something that attached itself to a healthy patient, the empire was moribond in spiritual terms and it is only natural that christianity took over the hearts of the brown mongrel masses that constituted the majority of its people
its acceptance by Germanic elites of the migration period is more interesting, though to me it indicates that the latter were already in a decadent spiritual state despite being largely outside of the sphere of influence of Rome, and were only partially able to give it a more heroic and aristocratic form at the peak of the middle ages, with the appearance of chivalric orders, despite the initial resistance to it
it quite explicitly an end times religion