Thank you it started with Skall getting angry and just telling me to read it myself.
No, it started with you calling something nonsense after 43 pages of discussion, without entertaining the
possibility that there might be something to it that you didn't know. You don't even care to really ask genuine questions, you just start yapping.
You may have noticed that when someone asks me a question, it'not unknown for me to type out an essay in response.
The problem is that you're a bit of a dick, and you refuse to do anything yourself. The burden of educating you is not on me. The things you wnt to know have been discussed, and you can read them. If you'd asked like a normal person, I'd just have linked to the relevant posts.
I quickly skimmed it. I did not see anything about Charlamagne, and Constantine and Christianity.
Clearly, skimming isn't doing you much good. On the first page, you'll find considerable mention of what civilisations inherit from one another, and why the West isn't just a continuation of Rome; but that the West did inherit a religion from Rome; one that Rome merely adopted, but which became the very
nucleus of the so-called Western civilisation... to the point that I argue that the modern and secular term "the West" is inadequate, and that this civilisation is properly called "Christendom". A point also argued by the historians Spengler and Toynbee (among others), to whom I already referred you.
If you'd done a bit more than skimming, you'd already know all of this. The problem is that you refuse to do any "catching-up" even though you're parachuting into the middle of a conversation; any you expect everyone else to drop everything and start repeating points that were discussed way back, purely for
your benefit.
But that's not my job. (Well, actually, it is, but during office hours, I get paid handsomely for it. I don't do it for free; or rather,
only when asked politely, by people I like.)
If you start out by acting like a dick, the result is that I just tell you to read back, because I've been over it, and what
you don't know is
your problem.