Constantine killed Rome

Many different deities as the manifestation of a singular over-deity is not monotheism. It's some weird sort of pantheism mixed with polytheism.

Except the same thing happened with Yahweh, a military based God over time was associated with and absorbed other minor deities. The end result is Monotheism, had the worship of Sol Invictus continued without interruption the cult would absorb other deities until it alone remained. This happens to pagan religions that tend to focus on a single supreme God that reigns over the other minor Gods.

During the turmoil of the Late Roman Empire the worship of a single supreme military themed God would just be all the more probable wich would hasten the decline of minor Gods and hasten Sol Invictus's rise as a single supreme God.

Modern history isn't written by theologians and the best thing about the Catholic church is that for a long time it was widespread but not very doctrinal cohesive. People would often continue to worship many of the same things except now they saints instead of spirits.

But their where large changes in belief systems, but this must be placed in the context of the times which featured a large number of changes from classical antiquity the most notable being the slow move of powerful elites from cities to countryside and a subsequent powergap in cities filled by the church.

Caracalla killed the Roman Empire

The crisis of the 3rd century had already transformed Rome and led to the rise of christianity, whether this was good or bad, it had nothing to do with Constantine.

t.Praetoran

>Empire being torn apart by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and regional barriers between its disparate populations
>Constantine notices the only common thread between the various Roman peoples anymore is that there's Christians in pretty much every corner of his Empire
>decides to use Christianity to knit the Empire back together
>only problem is that there's too many different sects and they don't get along
>use authority to create a single dominant sect and then adopt it as the state religion
I mean, I think it was a good idea in theory.

Romulus killed Rome

Except that Constantine never made polytheism illegal, his own nephew Julian continued to support polytheism after he was gone. All Constantine did was legalese Christianity and give it some support. If you should blame anyone it is Theodosius, he who offically made Christianity the standard religion. He made Christianity the sole religion in 394, which also happened to be directly preceding the decade from 400 to 410 when the western empire fell.

Stonehenge was just a part of a larger religious complex.

Also, Britain-Rome can't really be compared.

>Modern day christians and those sympathetic to them tend to downplay the destruction historical christians committed in the name of their faith.
This! The constant meymey is that they saved X numbers of books in the monasteries.

But if you're saving half of a library, would you name all the books? Or would you just brag by saying "half a library"?

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>muh abrahamitic theology
Heard about hinduism? They've got avatars and shit.

>decade from 400 to 410 when the western empire fell.
Nigger what?

Ever heard of buddhism and jainism and how they almist chased hinduism out of india until the muslims came in and started to shit in everyone?

Why is it always the historical illiterates that have read nothing about Rome or even tried to listen to the podcast that keep saying rome fell because of x currently expedient reason?

>soul of rome

what the fuck are you talking about you mouthbreathing amerifuck

Rome was flooded by barbarians, had no real effective army and was sacked by 410 which was only sixteen years after Theodosius enforced Christianity. Hence why people associated the fall of paganism under Theodosius with the fall of Rome.

If you read up on Hinduism you'd know that different groups are actually more monotheistic than polytheistic. The reason Hinduism is a complete mess theologically speaking is because India has never been united under a Hindu Empire. It is not a comparable instance to the Roman pagans who were actively trying to unite the followers of different Gods under Sol Invictus.

Separation creates divergence in all religions, a single ruler/state consolidates religious practices which usually ends in attempts to standardize a religion. A single God is also cheaper and easier than multiple Gods, instead of sacrificing and asking multiple Gods for assistance the Romans could side step making offerings to several pagan Gods and simply pay homage to the amalgamation of them all as Sol Invictus.

Pagan Europe
>one stagnating empire and a bunch of barbarian tribes that were about to wreck said empire
Christian Europe
>multiple powerful empires, many of which conquered and colonized pretty much entire world leaving everyone else miles behind until they caught up
He had a vision alright. And he made a good call.

>muh crystal dragon Jesus

Was discussing theology.

>implying that the early christians wasn't illiterate moth breaters

Comparing subhumans to the mediterranean master race isn't fair, just laugh at them for being subjugated by Christian kingdoms and empires

The sack of Rome is not the fall of the Western Empire, you frenulum.

>had no real effective army
Is there any bigger tell-tale sign of a brainlet that when this gets said?

>thinking that the sack of Rome, the city that wasn't even the capital at the time, was significant enough to cause the Empire to fracture

Please.

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I didn't say it was. More significant was certainly the earlier invasions of Italy, and the consequent abandoning of the Rhine frontier which led to the Rhine crossing of huge numbers of Vandals, Alans, Suevi, etc in 406. Its hard to see how the Western empire could survive without itself Rhine frontier.

You do realize the empire had another 70 years of life after that?

His expression in this statue perfectly encapsulates Constantine. He got away with so much bullshit even he knows he should not have.

Rome has been on the verge of collapse throughout the III century, then Diocletianus and Constantine took power ending this first long crisis. Christianity has nothing to do with that

Rome had way too many incompetent emperors. and some of them were batshit insane.

One man rule is shit.

>the destruction historical christians committed in the name of their fait
As it should be. Wipe away the evil from this world.

Stop believing everything you read on forums, user.