After the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD Judea completely lost its independence to Rome, and after defeat of Bar-Kokhba revolt in 136 AD it ceased to exist as a national state of Jewish people. At that time started the essential struggle between polytheistic culture of the Rome (master, strong) and newly developed Christian monotheism in former Judea and surrounding territories in the Middle East (slave, weak), which lasted continuously until 323 AD when Christianity became official religion of the Roman Empire. Nietzsche condemns the triumph of slave morality in the West, saying that the democratic movement is the ""collective degeneration of man"". He claimed that the nascent democratic movement of his time was essentially slavish and weak. Weakness conquered strength, slave conquered master, re-sentiment conquered sentiment. This ressentiment Nietzsche calls "priestly vindictiveness", which is based on the jealous weak seeking to enslave the strong, and thus erode the basis for power itself by pulling the powerful down. Such movements were, according to Nietzsche, inspired by "the most intelligent revenge" of the weak. Nietzsche saw democracy and Christianity as the same emasculating impulse which sought to make everyone equal by making everyone a slave.