“Amazing. You must be smart to know more than Italy’s top historian. Or you are simply a confidently ill informed Freeper.”
My university degree is in History. I’ve studied history since I was a little kid. I’ve read all the essentials, and then some (including the seminal Livy and the later Gibbon). The consensus is what I have said: Rome fell because it became a top-heavy bureaucracy that could not handle Rome’s many and varied interests, and that bureaucracy became too absorbed with itself and neglected the Empire. There may have been buggery, as every culture has had it do one degree or another; but buggery did not cause the collapse of the Empire.
Ok, fair enough