High Security Fridge / The Golf Pro · At The Stroke of Midnight / Alien Roaches / The Laugh Box · Hide and Go Whiskers! While the spread of Christianity may have played a small role in curbing Roman civic virtue, most scholars now argue that its influence paled in comparison to military, economic and administrative factors.

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The doctrine of the fall of man is extrapolated from the traditional Christian exegesis of Genesis 3. The series introduced catchphrases that entered popular culture in the UK, including Perrin's reflexive apology for a late arrival at the office; his boss CJ's "I didn't get where I am today .Like other Enlightenment thinkers and British citizens of the age steeped in institutional anti-Catholicism, Gibbon held in contempt the Middle Ages as a priest-ridden, superstitious Dark Age.

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Gnosticism originated in the late 1st century CE in non-rabbinical Jewish and early Christian sects. In the formation of Christianity, various sectarian groups, labeled "gnostics" by their opponents, emphasised spiritual knowledge ( gnosis) of the divine spark within, over faith ( pistis) in the teachings and traditions of the various communities of Christians. In mainstream (Nicene) Christianity, the doctrine of the Fall is closely related to that of original sin or ancestral sin. Since Roman civic and religious life were deeply connected—priestesses controlled the fortune of Rome, prophetic books told leaders what they needed to do to win wars, and emperors were deified—Christian religious beliefs and allegiances conflicted with the working of empire. Under Gallienus (Emperor from 253 to 268) the senatorial aristocracy ceased joining the ranks of the senior military commanders.Civil war thrust the empire into chaos, and more than 20 men took the throne in the span of only 75 years, usually after the murder of their predecessor. The lack of a permanent settlement, and the theory that the scale of the land that lay beyond Newfoundland wasn’t fully grasped, may have led to the knowledge of Vinland being ignored, or not accorded the significance it deserved.