Remember what the dormouse said: feed your head (VI)

"This book is not intended as a comprehensive history of early Christianity and its complex, embattled relationship to the Roman empire, and it would be unfair to judge it against that aim. It is, rather, a finely crafted, invigorating polemic against the resilient popular myth that presents the Christianisation of Rome as the triumph of a kinder, gentler politics" (sobre A Chegada das Trevas: Como os Cristãos Destruiram o Mundo Clássico, de Catherine Nixey)