Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Learning from Cicero: The Decline and Fall of the ...":
Gibbons.... hmmm...
Of course he was the author whose main premise of the entire work "Decline and Fall..." was that the Christians weakened the Empire -- pacifists, lovers of all people, etc. -- to such an extent that it fell. No friend to Christianity was Gibbons.
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GJ - Have you actually read Gibbons? I read the entire set twice and repeated some volumes after that. That is definitely the lamest review of Gibbons I have seen, as if a sophomore read some reviews on the Net and decided to parrot them. The main premise of the entire work? Spare me.
