Replying to a message of Jeff Snyder to Bob Ackley:

 JS> On 05/03/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Bob Ackley: Abortion.

 BA>> Note that for the last several hundred years of its existence, the
 BA>> Roman Empire was Christian, as was the Byzantine Empire - and FTM
 BA>> Hitler's Germany.  All Christian nations, and that factoid didn't
 BA>> seem to help.  All eventually collapsed as, to a lesser extent, did
 BA>> the British Empire after WW II.

 JS> Bob, stop and think. Can you honestly tell me that they were Christian
 JS> by their deeds, or were they Christian in name only, because using
 JS> that moniker helped them to spread their power and influence
 JS> throughout the known world of their day?

Christianity was the state religion of those empires - except for Hitler's
Germany where it was the major religion within the state but not a part of
the government.

I forgot about the Holy Roman Empire, which was also Christian and which 
also collapsed.

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