Or, to put it differently, when the Christian God was introduced to Europe, He was better able than other pagan gods to thrive in the European environment, passing His information on through His followers in greater numbers from generation to generation, slowly squeezing the other gods either into their own reduced niches or into extinction?
Would this be a fair way of describing the Christian God's conquest of Europe in the first thousand or so years C.E.?
Can we say that the Christian God triumphed over other gods in Europe because He was better fit to do so?microsoft
I feel there was more agression involved, especially after nascent Christianity merged with a Latin liturgy that was the poer seat of citystates .. The perrenial and varied pagan faiths (and remember how vast the cultural and language variants-Thessalian.Goth,Visigoth, post Hellenic Coptic, Ptolemaic Coptic,Gaelic,Cymry,Irish,diverse Norse) .. had always been fluid, tolerant and mutable .. Christianity walked into their midsts in this atmosphere .. The varied pagan faiths had similar alphabet mysteries .. This was not "coincidence" .. but more a matter of how they had blended and fused over ages ...
So as a Roman based and Latin clergy .. became the new "bishops" ruling cities .. At first the blending were once again of mutually tolerant natures .. observe the designs of most ancient Christian Cathedrals and you will find them "directionally" laden with Christian iconography ...
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