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===Roman Empire===

===Roman Empire===

While pagan Rome evidenced that its people had retained a somewhat strong degree of adherence to many basic moral values for much of its history, without which it could not have been a great empire, their gods themselves (mainly being forms of Greek deities) were immoral, and the Roman Empire followed the path of moral degeneration that would be its ruin. The moral deterioration of the Empire is seen to have attained its highest point in the dissolute age of the immoral Roman Emperors,<ref>Prof. Kurtz's church history, p. 25 (1889)</ref> almost all of which were active [[homosexuals]].  

While pagan Rome evidenced that its people had retained a somewhat strong degree of adherence to many basic moral values for much of its history, without which it could not have been a great empire, their gods themselves (mainly being forms of Greek deities) were immoral, and the Roman Empire followed the path of moral degeneration that would be its ruin. The moral deterioration of the Empire is seen to have attained its highest point in the dissolute age of the immoral Roman Emperors,<ref>Prof. Kurtz's church history, p. 25 (1889)</ref> almost all of which were active [[homosexuals]], and who often claimed godhood themselves in order to legitimize their rule.

J.W. Shepard states,  

J.W. Shepard states,