In 410 A.D. Alaric the Goth arrived at the gates of Rome and demanded entrance for himself and his army. The city fathers pleaded in the name of God for mercy. Alaric replied "I have been sent in the name of this God to humble your city."
For the next ten days the great city was subject to pillage.
Thus began the fall of the Roman Republic.
The five major reasons for the demise of the Empire (Pax Romana) are being eerily repeated two thousand years in the unfolding history of the American Republic (Pax Americana)
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Let me list the causes that brought about the collapse of Rome.
1) Bloated public spending that outstripped the national coffers.
2) An over-extended military largely made up of mercenary soldiers.
3) Rampant homo-sexuality ( a practice emulated from the Greeks)
4) A system of entitlements that gave free bread and public sport to the lower classes while most of the manual labor was done by an indigenous slave population.
5) Cronyism and corruption at the highest levels of society.
From start to finish it took a thousand years for Rome to rise, reign, decay and collapse.
As we look at events unfolding in the U.S. Congress today it is hard to believe that the great Republic, born 250 years ago will last in its present form for another fifty..........................unless there is another spiritual awakening for which I pray most fervently.
Jubilate.
Ian
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