Why did the Western Roman Empire Collapse?

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Question: Why did the Western Roman Empire Collapse?
Position‹4 of 4: Cultural Causes

A change in fundamental in values may have destroyed the Roman Empire. It has been argued both that Rome was too decadent and immoral, and too pious and Christian by different thinkers. Both groups attribute Rome’s fall to a decline in Roman virtues during the Imperial period.

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Christianity broke the spirit of the empire
Christianity has sometimes been blamed for weakening the previously vigorous martial spirit of the Roman Empire. It was most famously proposed by Edward Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.