Professor:
Why not go ahead, re your last paragraph, and throw in the towel, admit, with Salvian, a Marseillaise Christian priest 440 AD, who asks, re the fall of Rome all around him, "Why has God allowed us to become weaker and more miserable than all the tribal peoples?"
Salvian's answer, and that of the NYT, is clear, and it was not the advent of Christianity over Roman pagan religion, which had been the obvious answer (and Gibbon's):
His contemporaries were sinful, and the barbarians (all people of color in NYT speak) were virtuous and blameless.
All the best
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