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Yeah, but Rome itself also adopted a new religion towards its end. It was pagan for most of its existence, and turned Christian towards the end. It's true that
by mcv 4y ago
Yeah, but Rome itself also adopted a new religion towards its end. It was pagan for most of its existence, and turned Christian towards the end. It's true that Russia has claimed the theological inheritance of the Christian eastern Roman Empire with Moscow as the Third Rome, but that still doesn't explain how Spain, Great Britain, the US and the Netherlands could possibly be considered successors.
- TapWaterBandit 4y agoYes, but that religion was heavily influenced by Roman culture in a way Islam was not. All the above mentioned countries still live virtually entirely under the morality and worldview shaped by that religion. Christianty is a religion heavily influenced by the Roman civilization, Islam is not. The nations mentioned all still abide by the beliefs inherited from the Roman past to a much greater extent than the Islamic nations. The Catholic Church specifically (which was the only church until the reformation) was and is a Roman institution. The groups that splintered off in the reformation were still heavily shaped by the 1000+ years of of this dominance. That is why they (and all other Christian nations) can to at least some extent claim to be descendants of Rome in a way Islamic nations cannot. Just because there are competing claims does not make all claims equal. Islam being the dominant belief system precludes a nation from being an heir to Rome in any meaningful sense.