>>19359110I'm not sure which war you're talking about. The fascist movement as it developed, backed by the vatican, was a force of Catholicism (and therefore Europeanism, as Catholicism is where traditions were best preserved), more than any force not backed by the vatican. Pagans don't exist anymore, if there ever is a war of religions in Europe, it's between Christians holding onto European customs and those distancing themselves from tradition, be it by scripture or rite secularism.
The church didn't free anyone from the empire, it was Romans themselves that destroyed the state from within. Romans had ramped up their tyranny only as much the populares had gained traction, and leaving behind tradition for a foreign religion was a direct result of the populares gaining complete power and conquering their way to financing all their unsustainable progressive politics. The old kings and the senate weren't as fond of war as the empire, and definitely not as fond of letting foreigners in, populism>centralization of power>empire>international tyranny>miscegenation>adoption of christianity>collapse was all part of the same slope, it's the Roman realization of a cycle as old as civilizations.
The last paragraph isn't about the early church at all, Romans of that time were Christians. Progress has been steady since the adoption of scripts, each day is a new day of unprecedented progress and I wouldn't thank any politician for that. Old Christians are least to be thanked, they caused the collapse and dark ages. Also social cohesion goes up the more federalized states are, if it seems like Christians caused high cohesion it was only because of the collapse, if anything all churches lower cohesion over time because they have a top down structure that promotes unitarianism.
