Machiavelli on War: Let Christ Be Your Army Captain

Christopher Lynch’s book makes the case that as Christianity became led by “unarmed prophets” propagating unconditional love even of one’s enemies, they did so to the extreme of self-destruction of the Florentine nobility class and its next generation. This theme echoes that of British historian Edward Gibbon in his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, that asserts Rome fell because of effeminate Christianity.