[inglor_cz]

Yes, yesterday, actually. I love the blog, though I do not always agree with everything. For example, this particular text could have remarked that Christianity turned out to be notably less assimilable and co-optable than many other identities and actually managed to subvert the empire instead of being absorbed to the mega-mix.

[labster]

No, it could not have made that point, because Christianity did not happen during the Roman Republic. It was not about the empire at all, so why would it make any points about the empire?

[inglor_cz]

Because it was a successor state with a rather similar philosophy when it came to conquering tribes and nations around?