The Cultural Vandalism of Early Christianity.

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When we are in ancient roman cities, we are baffled as to why so little sometimes survives of the old roman buildings. And then we often attribute this to the germanic invaders, claiming that it was them who destroyed the old roman temples. But in reality, it was cultural Vandalism of the romans themselves. But how could it have come to that? Well, early Christianity played a fundamental role here. Early Christianity was contrary to modern Christianity, a very intolerant religion. After Christianity became the new state religion of the roman empire, the old greco-roman temples and shrines were suddenly seen as evil, a place of demons, that was to be torn down. So around the year 400 AD, many old temples were destroyed by fanatic early christian mobs. But many still survived. However, draconic laws were issued against Pagans and thus at some point not many pagans were left. The Romans had become culturally estranged towards their own past. Thus, when now the old temples were damaged by earthquakes, floods or fires, the Romans would not rebuild them any more, but they quarried them for the construction of new churches or palaces. Only very few temples survived that had been converted into churches. But the vast majority was destroyed actively or passively not by barbarians but by the roman population itself. And unfortunately, Christianity played a big role in that Vandalism.