In history class we were told that in the dark ages people died young and wondered what would happen when they died. The church promised them salvation so Christianity spread across Europe.
This has to be a very incomplete explanation. I've heard all sorts of details from various sources: A Roman Emperor hallucinated before winning a huge battle then decided that it was the Christian God who brought him victory so Christianity become the new religion in Rome. The Celts had their own beliefs which were regional variants of Hinduism. The Germans believed in their own regional variants of their own mythology the most famous variant being Norse mythology. Some Christian kings gave pagans the choice to either convert to Christianity or die. Christians sent missionaries into pagan territories to convert them.
But all these details I've provided still paint a very incomplete picture. Christianity for whatever reasons seems to be more popular than all the pagan faiths. Why did almost everyone eventually convert to Christianity? Why was it so much rarer for a Christian to convert to paganism?
This has to be a very incomplete explanation. I've heard all sorts of details from various sources: A Roman Emperor hallucinated before winning a huge battle then decided that it was the Christian God who brought him victory so Christianity become the new religion in Rome. The Celts had their own beliefs which were regional variants of Hinduism. The Germans believed in their own regional variants of their own mythology the most famous variant being Norse mythology. Some Christian kings gave pagans the choice to either convert to Christianity or die. Christians sent missionaries into pagan territories to convert them.
But all these details I've provided still paint a very incomplete picture. Christianity for whatever reasons seems to be more popular than all the pagan faiths. Why did almost everyone eventually convert to Christianity? Why was it so much rarer for a Christian to convert to paganism?