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Description: The Final Pagan Generation recounts the story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"—born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand years—proved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. This book is relevant today due to obvious modern parallels. Buy the book here: amzn.to/2TURw31 This channel depends on your support: Patreon: patreon.com/survivethejive SubscribeStar: subscribestar.com/survive-the-jive Telegram: t.me/survivethejive Crypto: bit.ly/3ysmtvk