What attracts you to Late Rome?

[Alexand96]

He stated outright that in his opinion, without Christianity, Rome would have ceased to exist much earlier than it did (whenever that was... :? ).

Some historians would like to disagree with Mr. Heather and claim the opposite
And they have very good arguments.

Trust me, the reason I remembered the claim as notable was because it seemed rather inherently strange to me as well. Without delving too far off the beaten path into the history of Christianity, I find it a strange argument that a belief system which is statedly pacifistic was one of the driving forces of cohesion in an empire born of and and either implicitly or explicitly ruled by warfare.