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04/09/2008
Rome fell SEPTEMBER 4, 476AD.
In the centuries preceding, Rome was overrun with illegal immigrants:
Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards
and Vandals. They first assimilated, many working as servants, but
then came so fast they did not learn the Latin language.
Militarily superior Roman Legions marched rapidly on advanced roads
but were strained fighting conflicts worldwide.
Rome had a trade deficit, having outsourced its grain production to
North Africa, and when the Vandals captured that area, Rome did not
have the resources to retaliate.
Attila the Hun committed terrorist attacks.
Rome was on welfare with citizens given free bread. One Roman
commented: "Those who live at the expense of the public funds are
more numerous than those who provide them."
Tax collectors were "more terrible than the enemy." Rome was in debt
with huge government bureaucracies.
A history of court favoritism, infidelity, exposure of unwanted
infants, perverted bathhouses, sexual immorality, as seen in Pompei's
ruins, and violent entertainment by gladiators in the Coliseum, led
5th-Century historian Salvian to write:
"O Roman people be ashamed...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us."
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And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, He saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. (Peter was married and had a mother-in-law. He was not the 'first pope' and he was not celibate.)
Matthew 8:14
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