The tie that saved Rome. Do Western nations need a State Religion?

[Person Man]

The fact that they had tried to institutionalize the church probably caused the Fall of the Western Empire. This entire dynamic of extreme social engineering probably caused the French Revolution to fail (them creating a new state religion) and for France to be a much weakened nation. There were attempts between Constantine and Theodosius to find the right mix of tolerance between the Indo-European pantheons and the Church but eventually what happened happened. The 4th century was a relatively stable period between the chaos of the 3rd and the death spiral of the 5th. Could the fact that both traditions had various levels of tolerance kept society relatively stable?

[Person Man]

e pluribus unem, mutha fu%kahs

That sounds like a political super hero cry.