DESTROYED FROM WITHIN - Lessons From History For The United States, U.K. and Other Western Powers
In his first message on the book of Zephaniah, J. Vernon McGee cites Gibbons on why great nations decline and fall. He applied it as a warning to the United States, and it is certainly not difficult to see why, but other nations such as the U.K. and Canada, should also take warning. The Five Reasons for the Collapse of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon The British Historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was no fan of the Christian faith, but his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is still worthy of being read, particularly because of his insights into the reasons for the collapse of the empire and the way they should be a sober warning to Western Culture that we are repeating many of the same patterns that destroyed Rome. Gibbon listed the following five primary reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire: First: The rapid increase of divorce, with the undermining of the sanctity of the home, which ...