Conserative Morality wrote:The Parkus Empire wrote:Objective historians tend to think the empire fell because Constantine embraced Christianity, though I think his banning of gladiator games and killing of one's slave what did it.
Gibbon's theory hasn't been accepted in mainstream historical circles for over a century and a half.
However, it might be that Gibbon identifies another symptom of the actual cause. The conversion might not have cause the downfall, but its historical position certainly cannot remove it from a conversation about the downfall.