"James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
Jewish religious tribalism was going nuts at the time, Roman paganism was dissolving in cynicism.
Also, Roman paganism had abandoned patriarchy, and as a result Romans had stopped reproducing.
On 12/28/2017 4:18 AM, juan wrote:
Really? How did you learn that?
By reading the histories of Josephus, who came mighty close to being forced to suicide by Jewish religious fanatics. By reading the laws of Augustus, who was simultaneously emancipating women (revealing that his nominal religion was dead in the water) and pressuring men to get married (revealing that men no longer wanted to marry emancipated women).
Christianity is around because the state needed a religion, and because Christians had children.
"the state needed a religion," - the part about christian reproduction is of course nonsense.
Over and over again, throughout the last two thousand years, it has been demonstrated that people who adhere to the Pauline laws on marriage reproduce at about seven live grown children per woman if there is adequate food, people who grossly deviate from these rules reproduce at slightly less than two children per woman, even if food is abundant. Peoples that have bad marriage laws fail to reproduce and disappear from history. Either we replace our current state religion of progressivism with a religion that supports marriage laws that enable people to safely form families, or we get replaced by conservative Islam. Either way, female emancipation is going, but the second way it goes because our people, our culture, and our civilization disappears.