Neither is good, in my opinion.
In regard to political arrangements, Christianity has no more merit than paganism without Biblical morality.
The Dark Ages were a more difficult time than Pax Romana, and I expect the coming Dark Age to be a more difficult time than the immediate past.
We are seeing right before our eyes how the unshakeable superstitions of diversity and anthropogenic climate change are undermining the basis of modern life. Rational science is something most thought we could never lose a short generation ago.
Well yeah, it won’t be good when America inevitably falls, but it will be deserved. Deserved because America has abandoned Biblical morality.
So just as Rome was doomed to fall, so is America, and deservedly so.
Is this about right?