You seem to have no clue what my goal was in the first place

The question was specific: "Could such a group easily wipe away the Roman empire when beamed back in time?"

Ofcourse you can define "wipe away" as by necessity something even more extreme than what the Goths or the Ottomans managed to do with the actual Roman Empires.

I am not whining about voting behavior

On this thread alone you've complained about the votes on three different comments, Yvain's, asr's, and gwern's. Your actions as observed from outside are indistinguishable from those of someone who is whining about voting behaviour.

but that people who apparently try to be rational could be fooled that easily and act like a cult to protect their beliefs against the least amount of criticism.

You behaved much more aggressively and much more rudely at (even less) criticism towards this post of yours, than I've seen leveled against you.

I'm interested in protecting the standards of polite discourse that are part of LessWrong, which said standards of polite discourse you seem determined to destroy by continuous and gratituous insults. I haven't even touched any of the actual content of your post, only commented on your rude responses to criticism of it.