Did Christianity cause the Fall of Rome?

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There are many reasons for the Fall of Rome, but one that pops up time and again, is that Christianity was responsible for the Fall of Rome. But is that true? Well we can certainly attest that the rise of Christianity came at the worst possible time, in the 4th century AD, in a time when the Roman Empire faced aggressive incursions by many different germanic tribes. Unfortunately, Christianity often clashed with the old religion of the Roman Empire, classical greco-roman paganism, and this often led to many violent outbursts across the empire. This created a polarization of society, where instead of unifying against the foreign invaders, the Romans were pre-occupied with religious wars. But it is true that Christianity was quite intolerant and many old monuments of antiquity were destroyed by early christian fanatics. Yet, we have to fairly say that Christianity did not lead to a reduction of martial vigor, because the later Eastern Roman Empire was fully christianized and they showed an incredibly high martial vigor at times, as attested by the incredible victories of Flavius Belisarius or Basil II. So while Christianity did indeed indirectly weaken the Roman Empire by polarizing society, we cannot fully attribute the Fall of Rome to Christianity alone.