The more I look around at Islamic types wanting to blow themselves up etc, the nutter in Norway and his ilk of Islamaphobes, the Serbia/Albania problem, the Greek/Turkish hatred in Cyprus, the India/Pakistan problem etc etc etc... I wonder how it was that ancient Rome did not encounter these religious/cultural problems when it built it's Empire in it's pre-Christain days.
I know various sects were banned from Rome from time to time but they were not hunted down in other parts of the Empire; just banned from Rome. The Druids are about the only ones who got hunted down for specificly religious practices that I can recall.
I wonder therefore if Christianity and the adherence to 'one true faith' (dogma) was and is an impediment to the creation of a super-state?
I know various sects were banned from Rome from time to time but they were not hunted down in other parts of the Empire; just banned from Rome. The Druids are about the only ones who got hunted down for specificly religious practices that I can recall.
I wonder therefore if Christianity and the adherence to 'one true faith' (dogma) was and is an impediment to the creation of a super-state?
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