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According To Schaeffer's The Fall Of Rome

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The fall of Rome, without any doubt, was due to its governmental authoritarian style and vicious treatment of its people. According to Schaeffer (2005), “The Greeks and later the Romans also tried to build a society upon their Gods” (p. 21). Unfortunately, with these gods being a mere higher extension of themselves, and people witnessing the malice in them, it became difficult for the people to accept them as something of infinite value or goodness. Consequently, Rome’s downfall began with a crippled worldly predisposition, the lack of wisdom, and its coldhearted leaders that were egotistical, self-absorbed, and lacking the ability to see a grander world view that was needed to bring civilization to a progressive state. Perhaps if Rome had

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